When Takera Gholson came across chef Charity Morgan, she immediately connected with her particular approach to plant-based eating.
My theme for this year is exploration, and of course I had to start with food and health.
Eating a salad is great, but creating a lifestyle is more than just one meal.
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High blood pressure is a condition that has run in my family for generations.
My fluctuating diet choices are what drew me to Morgan.
With her cookbook, Charity gives everyone the roadmap to follow her lead.
Plegan creates a space and provides the language for those who have a non-animal based diet.
Morgans husband, along with a series of health issues, was her catalyst for exploring this lifestyle.
Approaching a diet change, especially a diet you have enjoyed your entire life, can be challenging.
But Morgan preaches that you should make everything you love, just change the ingredients!
Morgans book gives me layered recipesthey’re spicy, salty, and creamy without excess.
Integrating more plant-based meals into my everyday diet has changed the way I look at food.
Experimenting with replacements and alternatives in my cooking allows me to embrace greater creativity.
These foodsgrown by their own handsnourished them as supplements to any food they were given from their slave owners.
Black people are not a monolith and our food does not have to be either.
Unbelievably Vegan rebels against the stereotype that vegan food does not equal tasty food.
Charity dared to do something different, despite the opinion of others.
