ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
CHEF AJ
Chef AJ has followed a plant-based diet for over thirty-six years. She is a chef, culinary instructor, professional speaker, and author. With her comedy background, she has made appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, David Letterman, and more.
In Los Angeles, Chef AJ teaches her popular Intro Class, which includes cooking instruction, nutritional advice, song parodies, and flatout fun. She discusses food addiction and addresses the emotional side of eating. Never content to leave her audience with mere “just do it” advice, she teaches:
- how to create meals to transform your health
- how to deal with cravings
- how to deal with food addiction
Chef AJ is the author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight. The book is part confessional memoir, part delectable recipes. It chronicles her journey from being a junk-food vegan faced with a diagnosis of pre-cancerous polyps to learning how to create foods that heal the body. Many of her recipes can be seen on her YouTube cooking show, The Chef and the Dietitian.
She holds a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from Cornell University and is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Ani Phyo is a renowned raw food chef and show host, health coach, nutritionist, and the author of five books, including Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen, Ani’s Raw Food Essentials, and Ani’s Raw Food Detox. She lives in Los Angeles. AniPhyo.com;@AniPhyo
Christina Ross is an Ambassador of Healthy Living, dynamic conscious chef, educator, food writer, and blogger. She is the founder of PatisseRaw, a transitional raw and vegan dessert line sold online and locally in Southern California. PatisseRaw has attracted a health-conscious celebrity following and has also been featured on NBC’s Today Show.
Christina’s recipes and healthful lifestyle tips have been published in Natural Child World magazine through her column “Love-Fed.” Christina also contributes recipes and articles to popular sites such as Raw Food Recipes, Clean Food Living, Vegan Food Share, Organic Soul, She Knows, Just Eat Real Food, RawGuru, and Kris Carr’s My Crazy Sexy Life Community.
Through Christina’s ongoing partnership with local Whole Foods Markets she delivers her recipes to audiences of all ages. She’s been brought into schools to prepare her recipes for over 500 kids and to teach children how to prepare healthful, simple, and delicious meals.
Additionally, Christina keeps her many fans full of nutrient-rich content through her blog Love-Fed.com and through television appearances, which have taken her to Chicago’s Good Day Chicago on Fox 32 as well as San Diego for another episode on San Diego Living CW6. She’s currently working on her first cookbook to be published by BenBella Books.
Christina’s contribution to happy and healthy living can be found all over the web at the following social media links:
BLOG:
love-fed.com
COMPANY:
patisseraw.com
FACEBOOK:
facebook.com/lovefedrecipes
YOUTUBE:
youtube.com/user/LoveFedChristina
PINTEREST:
pinterest.com/lovefedrecipes
TWITTER:
twitter.com/Lovefedrecipes
INSTAGRAM:
instagram.com/lovefed
Christy Morgan, known as The Blissful Chef, has been tantalizing taste buds for years as a vegan chef, cooking instructor, food writer, and cookbook author. Christy’s mission is to show that a whole food, plant-based diet can be delicious and easy and will bring more energy and bliss into your life! Now living in Austin, Texas, she offers cooking classes and health programs for corporations and families who want to get their health on track. You’ll find her recipe contributions in the Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook by Kim Barnouin and articles written for various platforms across the web. Her first cookbook, Blissful Bites: Plant-based Meals That Nourish Mind, Body, and Planet, is available in bookstores. Her new online wellness program, Wellness Reboot, gives you a chance to work with Christy from anywhere in the world to transform your life and reboot your health.
Christy has contributed to VegNews, One Green Planet, Daily Candy, and From A to Vegan, and has been a guest on Fox 4’s Good Day as well as numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Martha Stewart Living Radio, Our Hen House, Vegan World Radio, and the Dr. Don Show.
Find out more at TheBlissfulChef.com and visit WellnessReboot.com/blog to follow her fitness journey. You’ll also find her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Del Sroufe has worked in vegan and vegetarian kitchens for more than twenty-three years, most recently as chef and co-owner of Wellness Forum Foods, a plant-based meal delivery and catering service that emphasizes healthy, minimally processed foods. He teaches cooking classes and is the author of Better Than Vegan and Forks Over Knives: The Cookbook. He has also contributed recipes to Food Over Medicine by Dr. Pam Popper and Glen Merzer.
Dreena Burton has been vegan for almost twenty years, in that time writing four best-selling cookbooks that chart her journey as a plant-powered cook and at-home mother of three. Always passionate about creating nutritious recipes, she is an advocate of using the “vegan basics” to create healthy, delicious food for the whole family. Affectionately dubbed the “Queen Bean” and “Vegan Cookie Queen” by her readers, Dreena is one of the pioneering vegan cookbook authors. Her cookbooks have garnered a loyal following, and Dreena has earned respect and repute for reliable, wholesome recipes.
Dreena graduated with distinction, receiving her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from University of New Brunswick. After working in marketing management for several years with an international satellite communications company, Dreena followed her true passion of writing recipes and cookbooks. The Everyday Vegan was her first project, following her father-in-law’s heart attack. When the cardiologist strongly advised a low-fat, plant-based diet to her husband’s parents to reverse heart disease, Dreena knew there was information needing to be shared—most importantly, how and what to eat as a vegan. After having her first child, she wrote Vive le Vegan!, which represented her journey as a mom and included more wholesome, easy recipes. Then came eat, drink & be vegan, a celebratory recipe book which has become a must-have cookbook in the vegan community and is known for its entire chapter on hummus and inventive flavor combinations. Dreena’s latest cookbook, Let Them Eat Vegan, a whole foods vegan cookbook that is entirely wheat- and gluten-free and does not rely on vegan “subs,” made the Amazon.ca best-seller list, reaching top five of all books.
Dreena has appeared on television and radio. She is a recipe contributor for well-known sites such as Kris Carr, Forks Over Knives, Engine 2 Diet, and PCRM. Dreena has written for Yoga Journal, VegNews, ALIVE Magazine, and has been featured in other publications including First magazine. She has won several blog awards, including VegNews’ VegBloggy Awards and Vancouver’s Ultimate Mom Blog. Her “Homestyle Chocolate Chip” video has become her signature cookie recipe and has received over 200,000 YouTube views. Dreena has strong and interactive social media communities at the following links:
WEBSITE:
plantpoweredkitchen.com
FACEBOOK:
facebook.com/DreenaBurtonPlantPoweredKitchen
TWITTER:
twitter.com/dreenaburton
Heather Crosby is a T. Colin Campbell Foundation certified plant-based health coach who has developed a creative, well-loved collection of over 500 gluten-free, plant-based recipes and resources on her popular go-to website YumUniverse. In an effort to kick medication and heal herself naturally from disease, she’s been fine-tuning the maintenance of this lifestyle for almost a decade, sharing what she discovers with folks who want to stay inspired.
Heather knows first-hand how overwhelming transitioning can be. It’s why, in addition to YumUniverse, she continues to develop numerous resources, such as ebooks, online classes, and support groups, that have helped thousands of people not just maintain their lifestyles but thrive. Whether people are interested in this lifestyle due to environmental concerns or for better health, spiritual reasons, or love for animals, Heather proves that plant-based recipes can taste great and are fun for everyone.
John McDougall, MD, is a board-certified internist, author of twelve national best-selling books and the international online “McDougall Newsletter,” host of the nationally syndicated television show McDougall M.D., and medical director of the 10-day, live-in McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, CA. Other McDougall activities include seminars and health-oriented adventure vacations.
Mary McDougall is a nurse, educator, homemaker, and coauthor of eleven national best-selling books. She directs all food-oriented activities at the live-in program and has authored over 3,000 recipes for you to enjoy. She lectures nationwide on the practical methods of turning your kitchen into a health-builder for the whole family.
Previous National Best-Selling McDougall Books:
The McDougall Plan
McDougall’s Medicine: A Challenging Second Opinion
The McDougall Health Supporting Cookbook, Volume 1
The McDougall Health Supporting Cookbook, Volume 2
The McDougall Plan: 12 Days to Dynamic Health
The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss
The New McDougall Cookbook
The McDougall Program for Women
The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart
The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook
Dr. McDougall’s Digestive Tune-up
The Starch Solution
Learn more about the McDougall Program at drmcdougall.com.
Laura Theodore is a popular television personality and radio host, vegan chef, compassionate cookbook author, and award-winning jazz singer and actor. She is the proud creator of the Jazzy Vegetarian brand and author of Jazzy Vegetarian: Lively Vegan Cuisine Made Easy and Delicious and Jazzy Vegetarian Classics: Vegan Twists on American Family Favorites.
Laura is the on-camera host, writer, and co-producer of the Jazzy Vegetarian cooking show on public television. In addition, she hosts the weekly radio show, Jazzy Vegetarian Radio, a talk/music format focusing on plant-based recipes, eco-friendly tips, celebrity interviews, and upbeat music, served up with a bit of fun on the side.
Laura has made guest appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Public Television, and she has been featured on The Insider, Entertainment Tonight online, News 4-NBC, Better TV, and CBS Radio. Laura has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, New York Daily News, New York Post, VegNews, Family Circle, Reader’s Digest, PBS Food, and Time magazine, among others.
As a jazz singer and songwriter, Laura has recorded six solo CDs, including her Musician Magazine Award–winning album, Tonight’s the Night. Her CD release with the late, great Joe Beck, entitled Golden Earrings, was selected to appear on the 52nd Grammy Awards list in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Album. Laura has appeared in more than sixty musicals, including the hit off-Broadway show Beehive, which earned her a coveted Backstage Bistro Award. She was honored with the Denver Drama Critics Circle Award as Best Actress in a Musical for her starring role as Janis Joplin in the world premiere production of Love, Janis.
A love for good food, compassion for animals, and enthusiasm for great music has created a joyous life path for Laura Theodore.
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Lindsay S. Nixon is the best-selling author of the Happy Herbivore cookbook series: The Happy Herbivore Cookbook (2011), Everyday Happy Herbivore (2011), Happy Herbivore Abroad (2012), and Happy Herbivore Light & Lean (2013). As of January 2014, Nixon has sold more than 180,000 cookbooks.
Nixon has been featured on the Food Network and The Dr. Oz Show, and she has spoken at Google’s Pittsburgh office about health, plant-based food, and her success. Her recipes have also been featured in the New York Times, Vegetarian Times magazine, Shape magazine, Bust, Women’s Health, WebMD, and numerous other publications. Nixon’s work has also been praised and endorsed by notable leaders in the field of nutrition, including Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. John McDougall, and Dr. Pam Popper.
A rising star in the culinary world, Nixon is recognized for her ability to use everyday ingredients to create healthy, low-fat recipes that taste just as delicious as they are nutritious. For more recipes and information, visit happyherbivore.com. You can also try her 7-Day Meal Plans at getmealplans.com.
Tracy Russell has tried just about every fad diet and expensive “super-food” supplement out there. It wasn’t until she discovered the green smoothie that she lost forty pounds, lowered her cholesterol by fifty points, and started running—marathons!
Tracy is one of the foremost experts on green smoothies and nutrition. She shares her wealth of first-hand information, research, and experiences with tens of thousands of people every day.
Tracy is the author of one of the largest green smoothie websites on the Internet, Incredible Smoothies, which she launched in 2009.
Tracy is also a contributor to Whole Pregnancy. She has written guest articles for other blogs and magazines as well.
