Chef Jason Wyrick is the executive chef for The Vegan Taste website. After being diagnosed with diabetes in 2001, Jason adopted a vegan lifestyle, lost 100 pounds, and reversed his diabetes. Since then, he has co-authored the NY Times bestselling book 21 Day Weightloss Kickstart with Neal Barnard, MD, became the first vegan culinary instructor in the world-famous Le Cordon Bleu […]
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Eco couturier meets The Vegetarian Butcher
For Vegan Food Month my post will be about something very important to me – meat! I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years and vegan for much of that, yet as a natural carnivore with constant cravings for flesh (and lover of meat substitute of all kinds), I was intrigued and couldn’t resist […]
Cookbook Review and Giveaway: Going Vegan
I’ve been vegan for a little over 13 years, so I didn’t really need a book called Going Vegan: the Complete Guide to Making a Healthy Transition to a Plant-Based Lifestyle. I did want it, however, and I had two reasons why: 1.) I’m a vegan health and lifestyle coach, and I help people transition to […]
Recipe: Down-Home Country Tofu Scramble with Sweet & Smokey Tempeh Strips
No self-respecting book titled Going Vegan would be complete without a recipe for a tofu scramble! And this one doesn’t disappoint. One thing Joni really missed when she went vegan was a big, hearty skillet breakfast, so she came up with this recipe, using potatoes, tofu, and tempeh to recreate a healthier vegan version of […]
Product Review and Giveaway: neat meat replacement
In the early days of my vegetarianism, there were very few veg meat substitutes on the market, other than tofu and a frozen veggie burger whose taste was very similar to that of the cardboard box it came in. (Not that I ever tried the box.) When I did want to sink my teeth into […]