Keep On Cookin'

Jason Wrobel dishes up a sublime fusion of food and humor to help you live to 100. He focuses on whole foods and big flavors as the author of the book Eaternity: More Than 150 Deliciously Easy Vegan Recipes for a Long, Healthy, Satisfied, Joyful Life. Jason turns up the heat on powerful everyday superfood ingredients proven to increase your longevity and serves them up as culinary masterpieces.

After graduating from the Living Light Culinary Institute and earning certification as Certified Raw Food Chef and Instructor, Jason went on to apprentice with the industry's finest and most revered talents in New York City, Detroit and Los Angeles. As Executive Raw Food Chef at the award-winning Café La Vie in Santa Cruz, California, Jason highlighted the amazing local produce from Northern California's central coast, taking innovative simplicity to soaring new heights. His other career highlights include winning the inaugural World's Best Raw Ice Cream Competition in Los Angeles and being the first vegan chef ever to present live at the prestigious Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival.

Jason hosts the popular YouTube channel The J-Wro Show showcasing healthy recipes, lifestyle transformation tips and epicurean entertainment. His television series, How to Live to 100, was the first primetime vegan cooking series in TV history, which has taught people worldwide how to prepare easy and nutritious plant-based foods. You can catch him weekly as the co-host of the podcast, This Might Get Uncomfortable.

Jason Wrobel: jasonwrobel.com IG: @jasonwrobel
Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG: @theveganroadie

JL Fields is a vegan chef, health coach, and chef consultant to food, health, and wellness brands. She is the founder and culinary director of the Colorado Springs Vegan Cooking Academy and a Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator. JL is the author of several cookbooks: The Complete Plant-Based Diet, Vegan Baking for Beginners, Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook, Vegan Meal Prep, The Vegan Air Fryer, and Vegan Pressure Cooking. She is the co-author of The Main Street Vegan Academy Cookbook with Victoria Moran and Vegan for Her with Virginia Messina. She writes the monthly vegan dining review for the Colorado Springs Gazette and produces vegan markets as well as the annual vegan restaurant week in Colorado Springs.

JL Fields: jlgoesvegan.com IG: @jlgoesvegan
Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG: @theveganroadie

JL Fields is a vegan chef, health coach, and chef consultant to food, health, and wellness brands. She is the founder and culinary director of the Colorado Springs Vegan Cooking Academy and a Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator. JL is the author of several cookbooks: The Complete Plant-Based Diet, Vegan Baking for Beginners, Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook, Vegan Meal Prep, The Vegan Air Fryer, and Vegan Pressure Cooking. She is the co-author of The Main Street Vegan Academy Cookbook with Victoria Moran and Vegan for Her with Virginia Messina. She writes the monthly vegan dining review for the Colorado Springs Gazette and produces vegan markets as well as the annual vegan restaurant week in Colorado Springs.

JL Fields: jlgoesvegan.com IG: @jlgoesvegan
Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG: @theveganroadie

Authors of Horizons: Gourmet Meatless Cuisine, Horizons: New Vegan Cuisine, Vedge: 100 Plates Large and Small That Redefine Vegetable Cooking and V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking. Husband and wife team Richard Landau and Kate Jacoby are the Chefs and Owners of Philadelphia's renowned vegetable restaurant, Vedge. In recent years, they have grown their restaurant group to include their street food bar, V Street, as well as their latest effort, Fancy Radish, in Washington DC.

Chef Rich Landau, a pioneer of the modern plant-based dining experience, opened his first restaurant, Horizons, in 1994. Winner of Food Networks Chopped. Landau has used the carnivore’s palate he grew up with to translate vegan cuisine to a broader audience. In 2009 Landau and Jacoby cooked the first Vegan meal ever served at the James Beard House in Manhattan.

In 2011 they opened “Vedge” in an elegant Center city Philadelphia brownstone to national acclaim.

Chef Kate Jacoby studied French and Sociology at Georgetown. In 2001, she switched gears to join Landau at Horizons. Her work in the kitchen beside Landau helped hone her pastry skills and shaped her approach to desserts. A James Beard Nominated Pastry Chef and a Certified Sommelier, her recent focus also includes overseeing the Beverage Program at all their restaurants and directing expansion for the restaurant group.

Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby: vedgerestaurant.com
Rich Landau IG: @chefrichlandau
Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG @Theveganroadie

Authors of Horizons: Gourmet Meatless Cuisine, Horizons: New Vegan Cuisine, Vedge: 100 Plates Large and Small That Redefine Vegetable Cooking and V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking. Husband and wife team Richard Landau and Kate Jacoby are the Chefs and Owners of Philadelphia's renowned vegetable restaurant, Vedge. In recent years, they have grown their restaurant group to include their street food bar, V Street, as well as their latest effort, Fancy Radish, in Washington DC.

Chef Rich Landau, a pioneer of the modern plant-based dining experience, opened his first restaurant, Horizons, in 1994. Winner of Food Networks Chopped. Landau has used the carnivore’s palate he grew up with to translate vegan cuisine to a broader audience. In 2009 Landau and Jacoby cooked the first Vegan meal ever served at the James Beard House in Manhattan.

In 2011 they opened “Vedge” in an elegant Center city Philadelphia brownstone to national acclaim.

Chef Kate Jacoby studied French and Sociology at Georgetown. In 2001, she switched gears to join Landau at Horizons. Her work in the kitchen beside Landau helped hone her pastry skills and shaped her approach to desserts. A James Beard Nominated Pastry Chef and a Certified Sommelier, her recent focus also includes overseeing the Beverage Program at all their restaurants and directing expansion for the restaurant group.

Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby: vedgerestaurant.com
Rich Landau IG: @chefrichlandau
Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG @Theveganroadie

Natalie Slater is a blogger and the author of the cookbook Bake and Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans. Bake and Destroy features original vegan recipes influenced by punk rock, heavy metal, junk food and maybe a bit of pro-wrestling. Occasionally Natalie will interview chefs, indie designers and other interesting folks for the blog as well.

She heads up marketing for Upton's Naturals, as well as their two Chicago restaurants Upton's Breakroom and Liberation Donuts.

Natalie has appeared on several TV shows on The Food Network, The Cooking Channel, and WTTW Chicago Tonight and has appeared on the pages of Time Out Chicago and Bust Magazine. She has been fired from more reality TV shows than you can imagine.

Natalie Slater: bakeanddestroy.com IG: @bakeanddestroy

Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG: @TheVeganRoadie

Natalie Slater is a blogger and the author of the cookbook Bake and Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans. Bake and Destroy features original vegan recipes influenced by punk rock, heavy metal, junk food and maybe a bit of pro-wrestling. Occasionally Natalie will interview chefs, indie designers and other interesting folks for the blog as well.

She heads up marketing for Upton's Naturals, as well as their two Chicago restaurants Upton's Breakroom and Liberation Donuts.

Natalie has appeared on several TV shows on The Food Network, The Cooking Channel, and WTTW Chicago Tonight and has appeared on the pages of Time Out Chicago and Bust Magazine. She has been fired from more reality TV shows than you can imagine.

Natalie Slater: bakeanddestroy.com IG: @bakeanddestroy

Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com IG: @TheVeganRoadie

First breaking onto the culinary scene as the only vegan chef to capture the top prize on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, Chef Chloe Coscarelli has since been recognized for bringing vegan cuisine to the mainstream as an award-winning chef, successful entrepreneur, and bestselling cookbook author. She has published four bestselling cookbooks, and in 2015 she opened her first restaurant, by CHLOE., bringing healthy and satisfying vegan and plant-based dishes to the masses. She later partnered with Tom Colicchio utilizing his craft space in NYC for her wildly successful pop-up series Supernatural along with her successful cafe Chef Chloe and The Vegan Cafe in Miami.
chefchloe.com Instagram: @ChefChloe

Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com Instagram: @TheVeganRoadie

First breaking onto the culinary scene as the only vegan chef to capture the top prize on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, Chef Chloe Coscarelli has since been recognized for bringing vegan cuisine to the mainstream as an award-winning chef, successful entrepreneur, and bestselling cookbook author. She has published four bestselling cookbooks, and in 2015 she opened her first restaurant, by CHLOE., bringing healthy and satisfying vegan and plant-based dishes to the masses. She later partnered with Tom Colicchio utilizing his craft space in NYC for her wildly successful pop-up series Supernatural along with her successful cafe Chef Chloe and The Vegan Cafe in Miami.
chefchloe.com Instagram: @ChefChloe

Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com Instagram: @TheVeganRoadie

Tracye McQuirter, MPH, was named a national food hero changing the way America eats for the better by Vegetarian Times. She's the author of AGELESS VEGAN and BY ANY GREENS NECESSARY, which established her as one of the most influential vegans in the country. Tracye directed the nation's first federally funded vegan nutrition program and was a nutrition advisor for the Black Women's Health Imperative. You can now join Tracey's 10,000 Vegan Black Women Movement (a jump start vegan guide) at byanygreensnecessary.com Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Essence, Bon Appetit, Ebony, VegNews, the Huffington Post, and more.
Tracye is a graduate of Sidwell Friends School, Amherst College, and New York University, where she received a master's degree in public health nutrition.

Tracye McQuirter: byanygreensnecessary.com Instagram: @byanygreens

Dustin Harder: veganroadie.com Instagram: @Theveganroadie