Isa Chandra Moskowitz
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| File:IsaMoskowitz.jpg Moskowitz in Omaha, Nebraska, 2010 | |
| Born | February 3, 1973 |
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| Cooking style | Vegan |
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Isa Chandra Moskowitz is an American vegan chef, cookbook author, former host of the vegan community access cooking show Post Punk Kitchen, and restaurateur.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Raised in Brooklyn, New York, and having dropped out of The High School of Music & Art, where she majored in fine art, Moskowitz found herself drawn toward the punk rock scene of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1980s, embracing first a vegetarian diet, then veganism.[1] She also volunteered with Food Not Bombs.[2] an anarchist organization that provides free vegan meals to the homeless and needy.
Career
[edit | edit source]In 2023, Tasting Table named Moskowitz as one of the “21 Plant-Based Chefs You Need To Know,”[3] and VegNews listed her as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food."[4]
Post Punk Kitchen
[edit | edit source]The inspiration to create her own cooking show, the Post Punk Kitchen, came while watching the Food Network and wondering to herself why there were no vegan shows.[5] According to Moskowitz, the show used the title The Post Punk Kitchen to signify the feeling of being "older and facing the conundrum of growing up and making compromises that their eighteen-year-old selves might hate them for".[5]
Restaurants
[edit | edit source]In April 2008, she relocated from New York to Portland, Oregon, then to Omaha, Nebraska. Her restaurant, Modern Love, had locations in Omaha and Brooklyn.[6][7][8] Her first restaurant, Modern Love, opened in Omaha in 2014[9] and a second location opened in Brooklyn in 2016.[10]
Cookbooks
[edit | edit source]The success of The Post Punk Kitchen led to the compilation of a cookbook, Vegan with a Vengeance, in late 2005, and a number of additional cookbooks over the years.[11][12][13]
In 2024, Food & Wine included both Veganomicon and Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week in their list of "the 20 Best Vegan Cookbooks for Every Type of Meal" in 2024.[14]
VegNews listed Veganomicon,[15] Super fun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook,[16] Vegan Brunch,[17] Isa Does It,[17] and I Can Cook Vegan[18] as "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024.
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Foreword
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Activism
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Moskowitz is a vocal opponent of "humane meat",[20] promoting animal rights through what she calls "Culinary Activism" or "Baketivism":[21][22]
After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Moskowitz posted on her blog a call for vegans to host bake sales in their home cities to fundraise for relief[23] which resulted in over $75,000 being raised.[22]
See also
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- ^ a b Moskowitz, Isa Chandra.Vegan With a Vengeance. Marlowe & Company, 2005, p. 3.
- ^ Post Punk Kitchen's Isa Chandra Moskowitz Talks Opening Modern Love in Brooklyn
- ^ Chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz Makes Vegan Work, from Omaha to Brooklyn
- ^ Brooklyn’s Modern Love Brings Vegan Punk Ethos to the Table
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External links
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- Official website
- Isa Chandra Moskowitz - CNBC Make It
Articles
- 10 Essential Pantry Staples, According to Chefs, Vegetarian Times, May 17, 2022.
- Don’t fear the vegan at your Thanksgiving table, CNN, November 21, 2014.
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- American food writers
- 20th-century American Jews
- Chefs of vegan cuisine
- Punk writers
- Writers from Brooklyn
- American television chefs
- American veganism activists
- Women veganism activists
- American women chefs
- Vegan cookbook writers
- Chefs from New York City
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American Jews
- 20th-century American women
- Women in punk