On the Flip side
If Flip Grater was an action figure she’d be Vegan Girl, able to leap mountains of chickpeas in a single bound.
The 39-year-old laughs at the description, but it’s true: two years ago, Flip and her husband Youssef Iskrane opened Grater Goods, a vegan delicatessen and café in the Christchurch suburb of Sydenham.
Flip, a bundle of energy in black jeans and T-shirt, started the business to meet a personal need: “Youssef and I like to have a glass of wine and a cheese platter before dinner, but we couldn’t find any decent vegan cheese or chorizo.”
The story, however, really begins with music. You might know singer and guitar player Flip
