It’s All About Food

Evita Ochel is a consciousness expansion teacher, author, speaker, natural health expert, yoga and meditation teacher, and web TV host, who lives by being the change she wishes to see, and helps others live out the highest potential of their being by offering guidance and resources in the areas of spiritual evolution, veganism, simplicity, sustainability, holistic health, and optimal wellbeing.

Mark Hawthorne is an activist and the author of three books on animal rights and social justice: A Vegan Ethic: Embracing A Life Of Compassion Toward All, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering, and Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism, which empowers people around the world to get active for animals. He stopped eating meat after an encounter with one of India’s many cows in 1992 and became an ethical vegan a decade later. He blogs about activism at markhawthorne.com, and you’ll find him tweeting @markhawthorne.

Part I: Brenda Sanders, Better Health, Better Life

Brenda Sanders is a food justice activist in Baltimore City who has dedicated her life to fighting for vulnerable populations. As a community organizer, Brenda has coordinated events like The Vegan Living Program, an annual 6-week vegan education program, Eating for Life, a plant-based cooking workshop and Vegan SoulFest, a festival that celebrates culture and the vegan lifestyle. Brenda promotes veganism in her social justice work because it’s a lifestyle that addresses health disparities, environmental destruction and animal abuse and gives individuals the ability to effect real, positive change in the world.

REAL Co-Founder joins Caryn Hartglass to inspire people to get into the kitchen and making simple, healthy, delicious meals. They offer tips to get you started.

Part I: Mark Lewis, Chmachyakyakya: 8000-year Crops

The most local form of local eating is wild plant foraging, and Mark Lewis of Arizona has been foraging the deserts and mountains of the Southwest for a long time, harvesting 2000 edibles and 500 medicinals throughout Arizona and the Sonoran/Bajan SW for 45 years using experience and knowledge from his grandfather and his grandfather’s grandfather. Having taught at university since 1983, Mark focuses on scientific and cultural insights about the plants — from economic botany, nutrition, horticulture, and traditional culture — that can inform cuisine based on these plants, Mark gives classes and Walk and Talks and, since 2012, has been presenting and offering prepared samples weekly each Saturday morning at the “Chmachyakyakya: Thirty 8000-year Crops” booth at the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers’ Market using 80 different plants and 30 mushrooms/morels. Some crowd favorites include cholla cactus panna cotta, prickly pear wolf berry shrikhand, and saguaro bao.

CONTACT Mark Lewis at [email protected]

Part II: Caryn Hartglass, On The Road Again

Caryn gives updates on Golden Rice and other GMO news. She unscrambles the confusion behind caged eggs and free-range eggs. She also covers the good news: Vegetariansim promotion in Italy, Veggie Dogs in Ballparks and more delicious news while traveling.

Part I: Lee Hall, On Their Own Terms: Animal Liberation for the 21st Century

Ten years experience as an airline worker, including numerous encounters with shipped animals, forged Lee Hall’s interest in animal-liberation philosophy. Hall earned a law degree at age 37, then worked in immigration legal services, taught immigration and animal law at Rutgers University, and served as an animal lawyer in the non-profit world for a decade. In 2014, Hall earned a Master of Laws in environmental law wit a focus on climate change. Hall has been interviewed for Allegheny Front Environmental Radio, Alternet, and Court TV, and teaches at Widener University -Delaware Law.

Part I: Joel Helfrich, Rochester River School: Proposed First Vegan Public School in the U.S

Joel is a father, educator, and activist who lives in the City of Rochester, near Highland Park. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of history at Monroe Community College and, formerly, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He received his BA in history from the University of Rochester, an MPhil degree in American Studies from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral dissertation is a historical investigation of Western Apache struggles over a sacred and ecologically unique mountain in Arizona from 1871 to 2002. He has also worked on animal rights, environmental, historic and sacred sites preservation, and social justice issues. He holds the conviction that a myopic focus defeats the most important work any historian does—being an informed and informative member of society. He sees the environment as a site where much of his historical training can be brought to bear, so he continues to pursue those interests as well as others.

Part I: Jo Stepaniak, Low-FODMAP and Vegan

Jo

Stepaniak is the author and coauthor of more than two dozen books on

vegan cuisine, health, and compassionate living. Having struggled with

IBS for decades, Jo knows what it’s like to feel that no food is safe,

even when eating healthy vegan fare.

 

Part II: Julie Gueraseva, LAIKA Magazine

Julie Gueraseva is the founder of the NYC-based vegan lifestyle magazine LAIKA.

Part I: Annie Mohaupt, Mohop Shoes

Annie

Mohaupt is the founder and CEO of Mohop, a Chicago-based footwear

manufacturer. Mohop combines advanced 3D fabrication technologies with

traditional artisanal techniques to produce custom-on-demand shoes for

women and men. Mohop has been featured in INC Magazine,

Entrepreneur.com, Huffington Post, and The Science Channel and has been

recently been named both a national top-10 hardware startup and top-10

women-led startup.

Part II: Caryn Hartglass, Summertime!

Caryn

brings in summer with recipes for refreshing drinks, summer picnics,

events and barbecues. While on the road in the Bay Area she discusses

some of the eateries she has been visiting along with the fun treats she

has discovered.

Adam Markey, Sole and Stone

Adam Markey is owner and founder of SoleAndStone.com:

An online store focused on providing traditional men’s dress shoes that

are 100% vegan all while maintaining the same level of convenience and

customer service as large scale online footwear stores.

Part I: Jonathan Balcombe, What A Fish Knows

Jonathan Balcombe is the director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and the author of four previous books, including Second Nature and Pleasurable Kingdom. Visit his website at www.jonathanbalcombe.com and follow him on Twitter at @pumilla66.

 

Part II: Erin Orr, Secret Estate Illuminati Ball

Erin

Orr is a chef, storyteller, puppeteer and educator based in Brooklyn.

She endeavors to create experiences that encourage and foster community —

whether they are crafted from food, with words or via visual spectacle.

She maintains the food blog Big Sis Little Dish,

where she shares original, adapted and passed on recipes and stories

about the memories and gatherings connected to them. She is currently

executive chef for Cynthia von Buhler’s immersive theater excursion “The

Illuminati Ball.” For this she’s assembled an eight-course vegan

tasting menu that guests of the ongoing event series continue to concur

is both delicious and satisfying.