The Veggie Verse: Insights from Plant-Based Cookbook Creators

Whether you're a seasoned vegan chef or just starting to explore the benefits of a plant-forward lifestyle, this event promises to offer valuable insights, delicious recipes, and compelling stories from these acclaimed plant-based cookbook authors.

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Lyndsay Sung is the self-taught baker, writer, and photographer behind Coco Cake Land (established in2007!). Known for her bright, colourful, and fun cake world, she is the author of three cookbooks, including Plantcakes: Fancy + Everyday Vegan Cakes for Everyone. You can find her work online @cococakeland and via her websitecococakeland.com.

Bri Beaudoin is a recipe developer, food stylist, and certified nutritionist. Her debut cookbook, Evergreen Kitchen: Weeknight Vegetarian Dinners for Everyone, was published October 2022. The cookbook was shortlisted for the 2023 IACP Awards, by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

Bri is the voice behind the popular vegetarian food blog Evergreen Kitchen (www.evergreenkitchen.ca), a brand she runs with her husband and professional food and product photographer, Anguel Dimov. Their work has been featured in numerous publications, including Food52, Epicurious, Martha Stewart, Chatelaine, Clean Eating, andBuzzFeed. Bri and Anguel live in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Desiree Nielsen is a registered dietitian in Vancouver Canada with over a decade of experience in plant-based nutrition and chronic digestive and inflammatory disease. She is the author of two Canadian bestselling cookbooks, Eat More Plants (an instant #1bestseller) and Good For Your Gut, which spent 4 weeks on the national Globe and Mail bestseller list and recently, a 2023 IACP award winner. Her latestbook, Plant Magic, arrives April 2024.

Her work has been featured in People, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, KTLA, WGN Chicago, Food Network Canada and Elle Gourmet Canada in addition to hundreds of media features across North America.

Desiree is also the host of the evidence-informed wellness podcast, The Allsorts Podcast, where she hosts a diverse roster of guests from NYT Bestselling Authors Carleigh Bodrug (PlantYou) and MeikWiking (Little Book of Hygge) to leading health professionals like Dr Will Bulsiewicz (Fiber Fuelled) and Dr Robynne Chutkan (The Anti-Viral Gut) to food personalities like Jing Gao (Fly by Jing) and Ed Tatton (BReD by Ed).

The North Shore Writers Festival is presented in partnership by North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver District Public Library, and West Vancouver Memorial Library.

The Festival would not be made possible without support from the Friends of the Library groups from all three North Shore Libraries, North Shore Writers’ Association, KidsBooks, and the North Shore News.

The Festival takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) , and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. The Coast Salish Peoples have long used oral storytelling to pass on and preserve their cultural teachings. This powerful tradition highlights the important role that stories play in our lives. We are grateful to host the North Shore Writers Festival on the lands of these Nations and honour the art of storytelling.

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