Chef, cooking instructor, television personality and author of 11 cookbooks, Robin Asbell is a chronic overachiever. She is also a steadfast and magnificent friend. Robin brings both her warmth and her impressive organizational talents to her new book, Vegan Meal Prep. “Meal prep is all about making sure you have really useful, delicious prepared ingredients,…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Aglaia Kremezi
I dream of running away to the Greek islands. Aglaia Kremezi and her husband Costas Moraitis actually did it. They left Athens in 2001 for the idyllic island of Kea, in the Cyclades and never looked back. If I ever get to Kea, I may never leave, either, especially knowing I’d be near Aglaia, cookbook…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Marisa McClellan
I hate food waste, and so does Food in Jars blogger and cookbook author Marisa McClellan. You may know Marisa as your go-to guru for canning, pickling and preserving, but with her new book Food in Jars Kitchen, she takes the food out of the jar and puts it to work. “My goal with this…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza
Five-time James Beard nominee, Lesbian, Mexican, vegan and above all chingona (rough translation — badass), Phoenix chef Silvana Salcido Esparza is not only a master interpreter of Mexican cuisine, she’s a social justice warrior. “I come from generations of advocates for those who cannot advocate for themselves,” she says. I had the pleasure of meeting…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Andrea Nguyen
You don’t need to be a pro to create authentic Viet dishes. James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and instructor Andrea Nguyen Nguyen isn’t. She’s been demystifying Viet cuisine with clarity, cheer and fabulous recipes since her 2006 cookbook Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. She does a deep dive into Vietnamese classics with books like Asian Tofu,…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Miyoko Schinner
“The way I work, I’m all in,” says Miyoko Schinner and let us say hallelujah. Dubbed a vegan revolutionary by UN Women, Miyoko is the author of four cookbooks including her most recent, The Homemade Vegan Pantry. She her husband Michael founded Rancho Compasión animal sanctuary. You probably know, though, her as the force of…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Jason Wyrick
The Vegan Taste’s Jason Wyrick wants you to know there’s more to Mexican cuisine than Taco Tuesdays. “People think Mexican cuisine is one thing,” he says,“but Mexico is almost as big as the United States and it’s as varied as the cuisine we have here.” That includes tacos, and Jason wrote the book on them,…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Linda Watson
As Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas, I contacted Cook for Good’s Linda Watson and urged her to stay safe. Her My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes guest post could wait for a better time. Linda came through anyway, despite rising flood waters, her local environmental advisory board meeting and hosting a screening of…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Vegan Richa
These are rough days for the America I value and fight for, the one of compassion, inclusion and acceptance. We can — and must — resist and persist but then we have to refresh and nourish before going back into the fray. That’s why on the day Trump buddied up to Putin and aimed to…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Hetty McKinnon
Hetty McKinnon and I haven’t met yet but we’ve bonded, whether she knows it or not. We’re salad sisters, united in the belief that salad is so much more than lettuce. Salad is an opportunity to give each season’s fresh vegetables and fruits the love they deserve, to enhance them with a defining hint of acidity…
