Buying a vegan roast is very much like playing tofu roulette. Your options ping-pong between "legitimately tasty" and "old boots with a whiff of sage". If you're sick of the usual faux-meat options, I have great news: You can totally make your own.

A roux by any other name is still a roux, but maybe that other name should be "fat and flour paste thickener", because the fancy French name seems to put people off.

Getting a large amount of coffee into one's body in the morning is of the utmost importance, which is why -- according to Rhoda Boone of Epicurious -- you should be having your morning coffee and eating it too.