![]() And that’s where all the technique comes in.” They’re not overcooked and not over seasoned, and they’re seasoned perfectly just cooked. “The best dishes are dishes where the ingredients are just treated properly. You have to treat them a different way,” says Taylor. For her, learning how to cook vegan food is about learning how to make great dishes with different ingredients. I didn’t feel like that was being really represented,” says Taylor. “My mission is to really give people a good sense that vegan food can be really delicious. The menus she creates are exclusively plant-based. After creating menus for the retreat was a smashing success, she says “it propelled her forward” in her venture.įor the past three years, she’s worked as a private vegan chef in Sedona. She found a job cooking for a retreat on Craigslist. From there, she worked for a family for eight months and took on a marketing gig. A friend of Taylor’s invited her to work as a cook at her Airbnb in Sedona. Eight months later, she launched her business. She made a few phone calls to a few personal chefs, and found one who would mentor her. “I have all these years of experience cooking and learning about organic farming, which complemented my skills as a chef to know what’s good, what’s She says she was tired of living in Sacramento and at a low point on her life when she stumbled upon a YouTube video that was about how to become a personal chef. She returned to the mainland to work at Lotus Garden Meditation Center in Sacramento. But she found chef mentors.įollowing stints working in California restaurants, she headed to Hawaii where she lived and worked on an organic farm for three years. ![]() She didn’t have any desire to attend culinary school because she couldn’t find a plant-based program. One of her first jobs? Scooping tapioca while her mom worked. Her mother has been a waitress for three decades. Her family members are ranchers.īut her culinary roots run deep. She tell us that as a teenager, she felt like it was a rebellious act. But as the Solvang, California, native started meeting people who didn’t eat meat and learned more animal cruelty, she adopted a vegetarian diet at age 14. Taylor Mae Dean was raised on a diet of pork chops and steak and potatoes. EATING HEALTHIER WITH PRIVATE VEGAN CHEF TAYLOR MAE DEAN ![]()
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