Fran Costigan, chef, cookbook author and Director of Vegan Baking and Pastry at the Rouxbe Online Culinary School is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Professionally trained, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching over 25 years ago. Her unapologetically luscious confections lack nothing — except dairy, eggs, white sugar, and cholesterol. Fran’s vegan desserts are appropriate for everyone who loves dessert, whether or not dietary restrictions are an issue. Fran enjoys mentoring students off all levels, from beginner to pro in The 90-day Essential Vegan Desserts Course she developed and leads at Rouxbe..

Fran’s cookbook, Vegan Chocolate Dessert: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts, is available in German, French and Italian editions, and follows the classic, More Great Good Dairy Free Desserts.

You can find Fran sharing her knowledge and passion across North America and Europe, at schools, conferences, festivals, and corporations at resorts and on cruise ships too.

A professional member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Les Dames d’ Escoffier, and American Culinary Federation, Fran is a proud to be an advisory board member of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Foods, and Main Street Vegan Academy.

For more information and recipes, newsletter sign up, visit https://francostigan.com/

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Essential Vegan Desserts at Rouxbe

Victoria Moran

Listed by VegNews among the “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors” and voted "Peta's Sexiest Vegan Over 50" in 2016, Victoria Moran has written thirteen books including Main Street Vegan and Creating a Charmed Life. She was featured twice on Oprah.

Vegan for 38 years and an obesity survivor, Victoria is the founder and director of Main Street Vegan Academy, in its eleventh year training and certifying Vegan Lifestyle Coaches and Educators. The course, live via Zoom, has as its presenters Vegan and plant-based luminaries including Marty Davis, MS, RD, Milton Mills, MD, Stephanie Redcross West of Vegan Mainstream, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, JD, of Our Hen House, and Chef Fran Costigan. Chef AJ herself will present for the October 2022 cohort. The Academy prepares committed Vegans to expand their outreach to the professional level, and graduates are coaching, consulting, writing books, working for Vegan organizations and plant-based companies, and starting their own businesses -- cafes, food trucks, an award-winning bakery, a bodega, bed and breakfast, retail shop, Vegan cheese and yogurt companies, Vegan cowboy boots, and many more.

(As a subscriber of Chef AJ's, you can get 20 percent off your Main Street Vegan Academy tuition by using the code Kindness20 AT https://mainstreetvegan.com/)

In addition to her passion for Veganism and healthy living, Victoria is very involved with yoga and ayurveda. Her undergraduate degree was in comparative religions; she worked with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and Northern India; and she is a Yoga Alliance-registered yoga teacher (RYT-200). She was lead producer of the 2019 documentary, A Prayer for Compassion, about food choices and spirituality; and is one of the cofounders of the Compassion Consortium, an online Interfaith spiritual center for animal advocates. After hosting 475 weekly episodes of the Main Street Vegan Podcast, she recently launched the Victoria Moran Podcast: Meetings With Remarkable Women. And she is working on her 14th book, Age Like a Yogi.

Please follow Victoria on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn: @VictoriaMoranAuthor. And follow Main Street Vegan Academy on Instagram and Twitter: @MainStreetVegan.