Vegan Cooking & Food Demonstration
11:00 – 11:45 am: Nicole Williams, Scrumptious Summer Vegan Potato Salad made 3 ways! Classic Southern, Olive & Caper, Crispy Bakon (low carb, healthy and delicious)
12:00 – 12:45 pm: Tamiko Garner, Vegan Deviled Eggs and Terrific Tofu Spread
1:00 – 1:45 pm: Isis Melinda Israel, Hide Your Veggies in Chocolate Cake & Zoodle Slaw
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In the Dining Room we have our Vegucation Classes featuring vegan cooking and preparing demonstrations with samples!
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Nicole Williams, Vegan Lady Soul
Scrumptious Summer Vegan Potato Salad made 3 ways! Classic Southern, Olive & Caper, Crispy Bakon (low carb, healthy, and delicious)
My name is Nicole Williams but most people know me as Vegan Lady Soul – The Diabetic Vegan Specialist on social media. Vegan plant based soul food cooked with love and soul is my area of specialty. As a Certified Community Nutrition Specialist and recovering type 2 diabetic, it’s my mission to bring pure love and soul to vegan plant based food.
I started my vegan plant based journey 6 years ago for health reasons. The thought of diabetes, major health conditions, and my family being affected was not what I wanted for myself. The important lesson learned was to love myself enough to Start Living. I no longer wanted to be or feel trapped in a medical system of sickness. I knew through food, changing my mindset, and forming a relationship with food, my life and health would be better. It’s through food my diabetes is controlled without medication and now I teach others through private cooking classes.
I thank God for giving me the vision to start VLS, the guidance, and never giving up on me. I can say VLS Is “Living Her Best” Vegan Life…
12:00 – 12:45 pm
Tamiko Garner, Plant-Based Vegan Sistah
Vegan Deviled Eggs and Terrific Tofu Spread
Come and meet Tamiko Garner, aka the Plant-Based Vegan Sistah, who likes to keep it real and relatable inspiring women of color to adopt a plant-based vegan way of eating one little ole plate at a time. After becoming a plant-based vegan almost 6 years ago and being a vegetarian for over 30 years, She decide to share her journey with women who were where she was in life, middle age. So, she started a blog at the suggestion of a friend, to talk about her plant-based vegan journey from a real and relatable point of view with a bit of fun while keeping it simple. That blog turned into a series of events called Vegan Curious Events which were created to dispel the myth that vegan food doesn’t have flavor and that those common animal-based products can be easily exchanged for healthier options. In addition to the event series, Tamiko has created a short program for the Vegan Curious, hosted her own weekly interview series, has been a guest on podcasts, and regularly engages with her social media family/community sharing tips, daily exercise, and the latest recipes she has tried.
Tamiko has found her passion and gets so excited when someone decides to try the plant-based vegan way of eating one plate at a time. She believes everyone has their own journey and should enjoy each and every step forward towards their healthy vibrant self through food, exercise, and fun.
Social Media links and handles:
Facebook page: Plant Based Vegan Sistah, https://www.facebook.com/PlantBasedVeganSistah/
Instagram; @plantbasedvegansistah, https://www.instagram.com/plantbasedvegansistah/
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Isis Israel, SaladMaster
Hide Your Veggies in Chocolate Cake & Zoodle Slaw
Isis Melinda Israel holds a nutrition certification from Cornell University, which focuses on how to prevent, reverse & mitigate disease through eating a whole foods plant-based diet. Isis is also a Culinary Chef; she teaches strategies & solutions to people who need inspiration & guidance in the kitchen. She is the owner of a cooking school Foodture in Windsor CA teaching healthy cooking classes. She is an Educational Alliance Instructor for the Food for Life PCRM (The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine founded by Dr Neal Barnard). She teaches his Food for Life classes.
As a cancer survivor, she is committed to sharing the healing benefits of a wholesome plant based diet. She has been practicing a vegan lifestyle for the last 30 years and has raised two healthy children now young adults on a vegan diet. Isis is also a Saladmaster Senior Dealer in Northern CA representing and teaching the benefits of clean cookware, she educates and teaches people on the power of utilizing food as medicine, and the art of cooking easy, quick & delicious meals that are focused to optimize and nourish the body.
