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Award-winning chef, educator and authority on plant-based cuisine, Chef Mark Reinfeld has over 25 years experience preparing innovative vegan and raw food cuisine.

Mark has written eight acclaimed books and conducts virtual and in-person culinary trainings around the world.

As you will hear in this conversation, Mark has an abundance of super actionable, step by step advice to unlocking our plant-based culinary potential. Near the end of our chat Mark shares, The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Amazing Plant-Based Cuisine. He goes into great detail and it got my mind spinning as to the limitless potential to continue improving our cooking skills and upping the deliciousness. Both for the more experienced of us and those of us who up until now might have been a little intimidated or overwhelmed by the world of plant-based cooking.

For a just a little of his extensive official bio: Chef Mark was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame. He was the founding chef of The Blossoming Lotus Restaurant, voted “Best Restaurant on Kaua’i”. Mark’s first cookbook, Vegan Fusion World Cuisine, was named “Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the USA”.

He serves as the Executive Chef for the North American Vegetarian Society’s Summerfest and offers vegan consulting services, including chef trainings, teacher trainings, and recipe development, for clients such as Google, Whole Foods, The Humane Society and more.

Mark’s mission is to help create a sustainable future for humanity by training others in the art of plant-based cuisine – for our health, the planet, and for a more peaceful world.

In this conversation we cover:

• Mark’s journey to becoming a vegan chef.
• Mark has focused on plant-based his entire professional cheffing career: Is there, or has there ever been push back from more “traditional” chefs?
• Mark’s 4-Week Vegan Cooking Immersion online course and some tips on unlocking our culinary potential.
• Avoid the “recipe trap” with a template recipe format style. Marks explains how this can look to give you limitless options with your plant-based deliciousness.
• How much does oil free + salt free factor in both Mark’s teaching and his own eating.
• Mark’s cookbook, Healing The Vegan Way, and the powerful potential of plant-based foods to prevent and reverse disease.
• What’s a Go2 when entertaining  non-vegan friends or family. Plus a Go2 day to day meal template.
• Is there something Mark cooks that he’s now nailed however it took many recipes flops.
• What would Mark say to the Head Chef or restaurant owner with a successful restaurant that does not have a vegan dish on the menu.
• The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Plant-based Foods That Taste Amazing. I LOVE this!

So much goodness there. I especially loved The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Plant-based Foods That Taste Amazing. Also, Mark’s advice on avoiding the “recipe trap” with his template recipe format style is gold.

I hope this conversation leaves you inspired to try something new in the kitchen because an incredibly effective way to advocate for the animals and for a vegan lifestyle is to lead first with deliciousness!

To connect with Mark, check out his 4-Week Vegan Cooking Immersion online course and everything else, I will have you all linked up in the show notes below.

Excitingly Mark has also offered a generous discount for his programs to Healthification listeners! Just enter Health20 for a code for 20% off his programs.

Connect with Mark across the socials: Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Also via his website: www.chefmarkreinfeld.com/

Check out Mark’s 4-Week Vegan Cooking Immersion online course:

Enter the discount code Health20 for 20% off Mark’s programs.

Mark’s impressive list of vegan cookbooks including Healing the Vegan Way – plant-based eating for optimal health and wellness | The 30-Minute Vegan – Over 175 Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking | The Ultimate Age-Defying Plan – The Plant-Based Way to Stay Mentally Sharp and Physically Fit.

The NEW ebook, The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Plant-based Foods That Taste Amazing:

That’s it for this week in Healthification.

However, have you checked out my Plant Positive Journal yet? 

I am so very proud of this stunning journal. There is now also a fillable PDF version available for immediate download so wherever you are in the world you can still get Plant Positive with me!

If you are plant-based curious. Or already vegan and need a healthier approach to the lifestyle.

In this daily journal you will learn how to consistently prioritise food, exercise and other healthy habits that build on each other to have a compounding and lasting effect.

To help you create a BODY and LIFE you LOVE by successfully managing your TIME and your MIND.

It makes a great gift to YOU!

Or, for the loved one who is plant-based curious or who has been a valuable vegan ally to you.

You can check out the printed version HERE: 

Plus, the fillable PDF HERE: 

Importantly, the journal follows a twelve month format however is not dated so it is perfect to use at ANY time of the year.

With love and gratitude plant friends.

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