Thank you to our 2024
Vegan Cooking & Food Demo Presenters!
11:00 – 11:45 am: Lisa Brooks-Williams, Marvelous Mylkshakes & Smoothies
12:00 – 12:45 pm: Isis Melinda Israel, Creamy Kale Asian Salad with Peanut Dressing & Sweet Corn Risotto with Zucchini and Cherry Tomatoes
1:00 – 1:45 pm: Paola Lozano, Tinga Tostadas
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In the Dining Room we have our Vegucation Classes featuring vegan cooking and preparing demonstrations with samples!
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Lisa Brooks-Williams, Marvelous Mylkshakes & Smoothies
Marvelous Mylkshakes and Smoothies!
Lisa Books-Williams is a plant-based chef, educator, culinary instructor, recipe developer, consultant, innovator and therapist. She has been sharing the joys of health promoting plant-based foods in the SF / Bay Area for two decades.
Lisa uniquely intertwines her skills as a therapist and chef to educate people and help them to see that when you feel better physically you feel better, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually. Additionally, she uses her MS in Healthcare to develop community and corporate wellness programs and to brings this information to marginalized populations and persons in institutionalized care.
12:00 – 12:45 pm
Isis Melinda Israel, SaladMaster
2 Delicious Salads: Creamy Kale Asian Salad with Peanut Dressing & Sweet Corn Risotto with Zucchini and Cherry Tomatoes
Isis Melinda Israel holds a nutrition certification from Cornell University, which focuses on how to prevent, reverse & mitigate disease through eating a whole foods plant-based diet. Isis is also a Culinary Chef; she teaches strategies & solutions to people who need inspiration & guidance in the kitchen. She is the owner of a cooking school Foodture in Windsor CA teaching healthy cooking classes. She is an Educational Alliance Instructor for the Food for Life PCRM (The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine founded by Dr Neal Barnard). She teaches his Food for Life classes.
As a cancer survivor, she is committed to sharing the healing benefits of a wholesome plant based diet. She has been practicing a vegan lifestyle for the last 30 years and has raised two healthy children now young adults on a vegan diet. Isis is also a Saladmaster Senior Dealer in Northern CA representing and teaching the benefits of clean cookware, she educates and teaches people on the power of utilizing food as medicine, and the art of cooking easy, quick & delicious meals that are focused to optimize and nourish the body.
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Paloa Lozano, Tinga Tostadas
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Vegan Tinga Tostada
Served on a corn tostada, carrot tinga (carrot cooked on a savory red sauce) topped with tofu crema, tofu queso fresco and lettuce.
Paola Lozano, originally from México and now residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, blends her deep-rooted knowledge of Mexican cuisine with modern plant-based innovations.
Growing up, she learned the art of cooking alongside her mother and grandmother. After transitioning to a vegetarian and later a vegan lifestyle, Paola adapted traditional Mexican recipes into animal-free versions. She shares her creative, plant-based takes through her pop-up, LA CHANCITA, and her YouTube channel, PAOLA LOZANO YOGA, merging her heritage with contemporary vegan cuisine.
