Lean Chef En Route

Edna Lewis’ classic cookbook zooms up the charts after ‘Top Chef’ tribute Some of the contestants didn't know who the influential black chef and author was.

Head Chef Fired For Bragging On Instagram That He Enjoys Secretly Feeding Meat To Vegans You might have bragged at some point in your life about your new stationary or car. Well, that’s nothing as compared to what this chef [...]

WE DID IT!!! With your support, 250 copies of the cookbook are sold. I have two options to either collect the payout or keep campaign live for additional pre-orders. I will keep it live for a month or so while working on my proposal and media outreach. I foresee a very productive life at the desk in the next few months upon return from bicycle travel. I will push for the release of the cookbook by summer 2017.

And Melanie Eager, Nutritionist and Health Coach Interviewed Me for Vegan Athlete of the Week blog feature. I'm a chef who makes a writing career out of cross-country cycling, combining three things I love.

Who are your biggest motivators in life?

One of the few chefs I admire and look up to is Jose Andres, Spanish-born chef who came to America with hardly any money in his pocket when I was a young man. He now owns several restaurants in Washington, DC and Chicago and is a James Beard Award winning chef. When a chef who does cook and eat meat told Anderson Cooper on the 60-Minute show that, “Vegetables are sexy,” that is something. He then said meat tastes good for a minute before it starts to get chewy.

To my knowledge, no vegan/ vegetarian chef has won a James Beard Award in America. Perhaps that day will come soon.

Is there anything else that you’d like to add?

Note that I do not make a habit of eating “enriched” wheat, soy-based products and corn. Living in the United States and knowing that ingredients that are banned in other Western countries are still legal here, I feel that it’s better safe than sorry when it comes to these food items. Unless these are certified organic or certified GMO-free, I assume they are not and avoid them. I also avoid refined sugar as I’m getting natural fructose from fruits.

Vegan Athlete of the Week: Mya Zeronis Mya is a wonderful Vegan Athlete currently cycling across 10 states in the USA