My Favorite Plant-Based Chefs, Podcasts, and YouTube Creators
In case you need more inspiration, here are some of my favorite resources for plant-centered eating, including chefs, researchers, scientists, and plant-based pioneers. These are the folks I have learned the most from on my own plant-based voyage. I am grateful to all of them for their knowledge, enthusiasm, and passion for plant-centered eating. I hope you enjoy their content as much as I do.
Recipe Collections:
www.rainbowplantlife.com - Rainbow Plant Life with Nisha Vora (vegan). I also love her YouTube channel for learning how to cook plant-based.
www.minimalistbaker.com - The Minimalist Baker (vegan, 10 ingredients or less)
www.veganricha.com - Vegan Richa (vegan with an Indian focus)
www.cookieandkate.com - Cookie and Kate (vegetarian and plant-centered)
www.101cookbooks.com - Heidi Swanson (vegetarian and plant-centered)
www.feastingathome.com - Sylvia Fountaine (omnivore and plant-centered)
Podcasts:
www.theproof.com/podcast/ - Simon Hill breaks down the science of nutrition. Great guests, lots of science chat, lovely interviewing style.
www.thehappypear.ie/podcast/ - The Happy Pear - Dynamic Irish twins and plant-based gurus, David and Stephen Flynn. Lots of talk of food with a focus on healthy lifestyle. Super fun and upbeat.
www.plantstrongpodcast.com - Rip Esselsytn - Son of heart doctor, Caldwell Esselstyn, and firefighter turned plant-based food and health educator. Great guests, focus is on plant-based eating, health, and fitness.
www.pcrm.org/podcast - Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine talks all things nutrition and health science with a plant-based focus. Regular contributions from a variety of physicians and other medical professionals.
YouTube Creators:
www.youtube.com/c/JaneEsselstyn - Jane and Ann Esselstyn - Mother and daughter duo teach plant-based cooking as part of heart doctor, Caldwell Esselstyn’s, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease program. Lively, upbeat, down to Earth, all about the health. Ann is widely considered to be the mother of the plant-centered eating movement.
www.youtube.com/c/GoodEatings - Malin Nilsson - Plant-based recipes and beautiful slow living videos from Sweden.
www.youtube.com/c/avantgardevegan - Gaz Oakley - Young, hip, classically-trained chef from Wales doing fun plant-based recipes, often on location.
www.youtube.com/c/NutritionfactsOrgMD - Dr. Michael Greger - Author of How Not to Die talks nutrition science in short video segments about specific ingredients and health topics. Super informative.
www.youtube.com/c/NutritionMadeSimple - Dr. Gil Carvalho explains the science of nutrition.
Weight Loss:
These ladies all have a weight loss rather than health focus per se. All focus on eating whole plant foods with low caloric density. If weight loss is a primary goal, you might find them to be helpful.
www.youtube.com/c/PlantifulKiki - Plantiful Kiki
www.youtube.com/c/HighCarbHannah - High Carb Hannah
www.youtube.com/c/ChelseaMae - Chelsea Mae
I hope you find these resources as helpful as I have.
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