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PYP 014: Cathy Fisher on Straight Up Food

Cathy Fisher’s plant-based food blog, StraightUpFood.com, is a popular and delicious source of whole food, plant-based recipes.

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PYP 013: Chef AJ: Unprocessed and Utterly Transformed

Chef AJ is well known in the plant-based world for her entertaining and bawdy cooking demos. She sings, does handstands, tells dirty jokes about kale and avocados (really), and wows audiences with her energy, fitness, and lean and radiant demeanor.

It’s hard to believe what AJ’s overcome in order to get there.

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PYP 011: Dreena Burton: Plant-based cookbook author, mother, and hummus lover

Dreena Burton is the author of one of my favorite plant-based cookbooks: Eat, Drink & Be Vegan.

In this far-ranging conversation, we speak about her transition to a plant-based diet, the health problems she recovered from, strategies for parenting plant-based kids who don’t feel alienated or deprived, easy and delicious recipes, and her fondness for hummus.

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PYP 010: Ellen Jaffe Jones: Obliterating the Obstacles to Plant-based Eating

Ellen Jaffe Jones is an Emmy-winning investigative reporter, a crack financial analyst, a chef and cookbook author, and a multiple-event running champion.

During this rollicking interview with Howard Jacobson, she explains how she went from being a part of “the world’s most unhealthy family” to a healthy eater. (And how she escaped the “inevitable” health consequences that the rest of her family has suffered.)

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PYP 005: Randy Clemens: The Magic of Sriracha, and Learning to Love Our Veggies

Randy Clemens is the Sriracha-loving author of two Sriracha-based cookbooks. (In case you haven’t tried it, Sriracha sauce is a fairly spicy, totally amazing Vietnamese hot sauce that has generated a cult following in the past few years.)

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PYP 003: Chef Del Sroufe: Better Than Vegan

10 years ago, Del Sroufe ate his way to 475 pounds – on a vegan diet!

Now, 200+ pounds thinner (and counting), Chef Del is the culinary genius behind the Forks Over Knives cookbook, as well as co-owner of the brilliant Wellness Forum.

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Fran Costigan’s Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts: PYP 002

Fran Costigan believes there’s more to life than veggies. Like luscious chocolate cakes, for example.

A world-renown pastry chef and educator, Fran has done wonders for the plant-based movement’s PR and sex appeal.

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Lindsay Nixon is The Happy Herbivore: PYP 001

In this first Pant Yourself Podcast episode, Howard has a lovely chat with the Happy Herbivore, Lindsay Nixon, about her transition to a whole-foods plant based diet, her evolution from kitchen klutz to accomplished cookbook author, and the Happy part of being plant-pure and strong.

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