Vedge Your Best, Vegan Ideas for Everyone At Any Age 253: Plant-Based Cooking As An Act of Personal Liberation: Chef Day Radley from The Vegan Chef School
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Jul 8, 2025 Chef Day Radley, founder of The Vegan Chef School in London, shares how plant-based cooking can be a pathway to personal liberation. She discusses the journey of individuals reinventing themselves through vegan cuisine, emphasizing that midlife is a perfect time to embrace new skills. Day highlights the importance of food choices in reflecting personal values, challenges the notion of calorie counting, and celebrates the creative potential within British food culture. Cooking, she argues, is a powerful tool for empowerment and activism.
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Cooking as Personal Liberation
- Cooking and food choices offer a way to reclaim agency and align with personal values.
- What we eat reflects whether we choose to support animal suffering and environmental impact.
Pink Flyer Sparked Vegan Journey
- At 17, Day Radley's life changed after receiving a pink flyer detailing dairy cow suffering at a protest.
- She immediately went vegan, stopping milk and eggs despite not knowing how to cook vegan meals.
Training Vegan Chefs Creatively
- Vegan Chef School trains passionate home cooks to become professional vegan chefs.
- The course focuses on creativity, real-world recipe development, and industry internships.
