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On today's episode of The Good Fork podcast, I've got the talented Chef Suzannah Gerber. 

She grew up working in kitchens and around family members who are accomplished cooks and restaurateurs, so food was a major part of her culture. Before she got into the kitchen though, she took another path -- a path that her immediate family took -- to being doctors. And then she took another, running a successful international fashion company in NYC with locations around the world.

But, during this time Suzannah was also seriously and chronically ill. No doctor could figure it out and after years of tests, medications and therapies, she found the answer: food.

She went plant-based and within two weeks of changing her diet, she was asymptomatic and after four weeks, she was off her medications.

It was then, in her 30s, she decided to become a professional chef, walking away from her fashion business that had caught the eyes fashion magazines like Vogue and celebrities including Beyonce, and went into the kitchen,

Her culinary career has been impressive, to say the least. She has  developed food for major retailers like Roots and Whole Foods, worked with some of the largest consumer packaged goods companies developing flavor profiles and products. She served as the Executive Chef and Director for Pressed and Corporate Executive Chef of Prestige, and Pressed. 

Today, Chef runs her own food industry consulting company, Haven.

She also works with the food and medical industries, bridging the gap of information, skill, and awareness for these foods, working on current medical studies observing the impact of food and diet on chronic illness and disease.

During all of this, somehow Chef found time to write a book, Plant Based Gourmet, which is due out this year.

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How long has it been since you got on an airplane? For me, it's been five months. And I miss traveling.

So, with that in mind, on today's episode of The Good Fork podcast, we're going to my old home of Madrid. I've got Diana Esteban, founder of Madrid Vegan Tours joining me today. When I was in Madrid at the beginning of the year, we met and I went on her vegan food tour and it was incredible. When I moved from Madrid back to Vegas in late 2015, vegan dining was just beginning to take off. Now, the vegan food scene in Madrid is wild!

We actually had two tours planned for 2020 together, which are on hold until 2021. If you'd like more info on the vegan tours I curate and host, head to veganworldtours.com

In the meantime, get ready to journey across the Atlantic and learn more about vegan dining in Spain and running vegan food tours with Diana and me.

Diana is a Madrileño, born and raised in the Spanish capitol. A vegan for nearly a decade, she studied tourism and worked as a guide when she was younger. Influenced by her family and friends to "achieve and more stable job", she left the tourism industry to work for an engineering company.

She realized it was a mistake and when she turned 40, she knew it was her last change to get back into what she really loved.

Madrid Vegan Tours was born. Already a vegan and a traveler, she saw firsthand how difficult it could be to find vegan food while traveling. So, she decided to change that. 

Diana operates numerous tours through Madrid, all with a focus on vegan food and experiencing the vibrant city. From walking food tours to cooking classes, ethical shopping tours and even a veganized tour of the stunning Prado Museum, she makes it easy to travel as a vegan in Madrid.

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Is wine vegan?

'On this episode, Frances Gonzales, founder of Vegan Wines, answers the question: is wine vegan? (Short answer: often it is not)

We dive into wine-making, what makes many wines not vegan, learn about buzz words like "clean wine", where the best places in the world are for vegan wine and so much more.

Frances is an experienced professional in the wine industry living in the Hudson Valley, hailing from New York City. As a wine expert and long-time vegan, she is the Founder and President of VEGAN WINES, a completely vegan wine club. (Save 15% on your order with code VEGANSBABY at checkout!!)

She's also the founder of Despacito Distributors, a plant-based wine distribution company.

Frances is also an active member of Women of the Vine & Spirits, an organization in which she coordinates events that foster a supportive environment for female entrepreneurs in the alcoholic beverage industry.

She also has extensive experience in the vegan and plant-based market across the nation and internationally. In addition to researching and traveling to vineyards, she has sponsored conferences like the Plant Based World Expo and Miami Seed Food & Wine Week, as well as vegan dinners by the James Beard Foundation.

Frances founded VegFest Puerto Rico, a festival that focuses on creating a community of people who appreciate vegan products, food, and beverages. Recently, she was a speaker on the plant-based panel at the 2019 American Culinary Federation National Convention.

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On today's episode of The Good Fork I'm chatting with plant-based protein expert Danny O’Malley. He's the founder and president of Before the Butcher, a leading provider of plant-based burgers and other meat alternatives. Maybe you've tried his meats on the new vegan menu at Evel Pie in Las Vegas.

His company was among the first to bring meat look-alike and taste-alike products to the growing number of consumers concerned about the negative effects of meat production and consumption on animal welfare, climate change and human health. He is also an international speaker on plant-based proteins, one of the fastest-growing categories in the food space.

We're talking about what it's like to run a plant-based meat business, how the recipes come together, and the quick success of Before the Butcher and its arrival to grocery stores and restaurants across the country. You can find their product at Evel Pie on their new vegan pizza menu.

For more on Before the Butcher and where to find the product nears you, check out their website.

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The founder and head creamstress of Paradise City Creamery in Las Vegas, Nevada, Valerie Stunning joins today's episode of The Good Fork.

Valerie Stunning, always knew in addition to her fascination with crafting decadent plant-based ice cream, the real magic she’d bring to Vegas’ scoop scene was raw inspiration born from a love & respect of her previous glittering neon worlds* where she celebrated indulgence on international stages for nearly a decade. Naked.

Though for Valerie, celebrating indulgence is more than a euphemism or hashtag.

It is a reckoning that the act of consciously indulging in what we find pleasurable can be transformative in spite of societal judgment.

It is through her passion for creating bold flavor profiles and facilitating inclusive experiences, she aims for Paradise City Creamery to be the pleasure she wishes to see in the world. And, let me tell you, it is. 

If you're listening to this in the summer, she's just launched new, luscious flavors you can pick-up from 5 - 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at Garagiste Wine Room in the Las Vegas Arts District.

What I love most about Valerie is her openness and honesty and her standing up for sex workers and helping to normalize the conversation. We're talking about ice cream, stripping and her advocacy in this episode. 

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Chef Kaimana Chee joins The Good Fork host Diana Edelman of Vegans, Baby on this episode.

He's the Chef Ambassador for JUST. I'm thinking you've heard of them? If not, they are a San Francisco-based company on a mission to build a better food system and the creators of my current favorite breakfast staple -- JUST Egg. 

In his role as chef ambassador, Chef Kaimana travels the world as a spokesperson for JUST educating consumers, food industry partners and students about delicious, healthy and sustainable food.

You may have seen Chef on the Food Network.

He's appeared on several popular cooking competition shows, including Master Chef with Gordon Ramsay, Guy’s Grocery Games and Cutthroat Kitchen, which he won back in 2016.

Chef Chee also has his own restaurant, Uncle's Hawaiian Grindz, in my home state of Maryland.

We're talking about a lot in this episode -- from being on Food Network to all the dishes you can create with JUST Egg and so much more.

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Al Mancini is a graduate of Seton Hall University and Brooklyn Law School, who began his career in journalism as a music reporter for ABC News Radio in 1996. He moved to Las Vegas to cover Southern Nevada for the network in 2001, and has covered the local dining scene for numerous publications since 2003.He's the creator of the book "Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants," which he co-authored for its first three editions. Since 2016, he has been writing about food and beverage for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

In this episode, we talk about his career -- from law school to rock and roll to food critic to covering the dining scene at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Plus, we chat about the restaurant world and the rise of Yelp, what it's like to write about food, all the food he's eaten and the plant-based dining scene in Las Vegas and how its grown over the years.

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Lee Asher isn't your average animal-lover.

In 2018, he quit his career to follow his passion and take his rescued pups on the road. He's spent the past two years traveling the majority out of the time  in an RV and now a remodeled school bus, with a posse of dogs he's rescued from shelters with one mission: to get more people to adopt shelter animals.

With a passionate fan base and partnerships with hundreds of shelters across the country, he's helped give shelter animals the spotlight and introduce them to their forever homes while on the road. Last year, he even caught the attention of talkshow host Ellen DeGenres and appeared on the show to share his message.

On this episode of The Good Fork with host Diana Edelman, Lee talks about quitting his career to live in an RV with his pack of dogs and creating The Asher House, a foundation that promotes adoption and animal rescue.

He also talks about his experience being catapulted into fame thanks to his series on The Dodo and appearing on Ellen; what it's like to open up his Skoolie and animals at adoption events across the country; tips on training pups and so much more.

For more on Lee Asher, visit The Asher House, and follow him on Instagram and Facebook. To get behind-the-scenes and learn more about Lee and his life on the road with his nine rescue pups, check out his Patreon.

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You could say Lindsay Stewart was born to be a foodie. Her dad owned a pizza place in Southern California when she was a teen and she got her start there slinging pies. Throughout the years, Lindsay's place was in restaurants working as everything from dishwasher to cocktail server. She found restaurants to be home. Then, in 2014, she decided to share her love of food and restaurants with Las Vegas. She launched The Las Vegas Foodie in mid 2014 and it took off. In the past 6 years, Lindsay's eaten at more than 600+ restaurants, tried thousands of dishes and become the leading foodie in Sin City. She's even started working with restaurants to help them improve their Instagram accounts. Lindsay also recently launched Exclusively Vegas, a new web platform to promote restaurants -- obviously -- and other businesses, to the Vegas market!

In this episode, Lindsay dishes on the photo that catapulted her into Instagram fame and what it's like to work in the influencer foodie industry. Plus, we chat about plant-based dining in Vegas, how the Las Vegas dining scene has changed, favorite experiences and so much more.

To learn more about Lindsay, check out her Instagram and also visit her new Exclusively Vegas site.

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Lindsay McCormick started BITE Toothpaste Bits because she was tired of using the small toothpaste tubes when she was on the road for work. Now, BITE is a toothpaste phenomenon that has gone viral. The vegan entrepreneur started her business in her LA living room and now has scaled to meet the growing demand for vegan, cruelty-free, environmentally-friendly, zero-waste products. She and her co-founder, Asher Hunt, even appears on the hit show - Shark Tank - where they declined Mark Cuban's offer.

Find out how McCormick grew her business and turned it into one of the hottest products on the market, her journey into zero-waste and her life before becoming a successful entrepreneur as a travel videographer and working on House Hunters.

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