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What’s Cooking? A Q&A With Vani Hari (Plus 5 Healthy & Delicious Recipes!)

What’s Cooking? A Q&A With Vani Hari (Plus 5 Healthy & Delicious Recipes!) by Kristen Noel. Photograph of Vani Hari and her garden by Susan Stripling
Photograph by Susan Stripling

Vani Hari, the Food Babe, puts her recipes where her activist mouth is and guides us to simple, healthy, real food options 

Inconvenient facts are still facts. ~ Vani Hari

Vani Hari aka the ‘Food Babe’ has dedicated her career (and life) to unraveling the food industry’s playbook — to taking on the Big Food corporations and tirelessly advocating for truth and transparency… because she learned the hard way in her own life. Hers is truly a story of walking her walk and talking her talk. It is also the journey of how a young woman who was once a workaholic addicted to fast food — landed in a hospital bed. But it is also the story of healing and revealing… and no turning back. 

The truth is that we all know we can do better in the food and health department of our own lives. However, sometimes it just feels daunting to know where to begin. In her latest book, Food Babe Kitchen with more than 100 delicious, real food recipes to change our bodies and lives — she’s got us covered and outlines how we can keep it simple and not have to spend the entire day preparing it. 

Vani takes us by the hand and provides a refreshing approach to being our Best Selves in the kitchen and in life.

We asked Vani a few questions about parenting, pandemics

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