WOM 620  Recipes for love  Has love or friendship ever caused
you to change your dietary habits? Paul MacInnes eats vegan Paul
tucks in. Photograph: Linda Nylind  I done writted an articule
about wot me wifetime maiks me eet. It's a vegan diet so short
of basic nutrients like iron and calcium that I am left too weak
to write a coherent opening sentence to a blog post.  It matters
not though, for I have ventured into new nutritional terrain
purely because of love. I first tried this meat, virtually fat-
free food, which is quite unlike anything I would normally
choose to eat, because my wife wanted me to try it and because
she had put real time and effort into persuading me. Soon
though, I began to develop an actual taste for the dishes. I'd
make them even when she wasn't around (though inevitably with
more oil) and would even pretend that our new nutty, beany diet
was as much to do with me as with her.  It isn't the first time
I've had my taste in food dictated by those close to me. When I
left university and