Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Moskowitz in Omaha, Nebraska, 2010
Born (1973-02-03) February 3, 1973
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Culinary career
Cooking styleVegan
Television show(s)
Award(s) won
  • VegNews Veggie Award: Favorite Cookbook Author (2007–10)

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

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.

Vegan career

In 2023, Tasting Table named Moskowitz as one of the “21 Plant-Based Chefs You Need To Know.”[3]

Post Punk Kitchen (cooking show)

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.[4] 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".[4]

Cookbooks

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.[5][6][7] Both Veganomicon and Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week appeared on the list of the 16 best vegan cookbooks for 2023 by Food & Wine,[8] and Isa Does It was also named one of the “The 18 Best Vegan Cookbooks for Every Type of Meal” by Food & Wine.[9]

Restaurants

In April 2008, she relocated from New York to Portland, Oregon, then to Omaha, Nebraska. Her restaurant, Modern Love, has locations in Omaha and Brooklyn.[10][11][12] Her first restaurant, Modern Love, opened in Omaha in 2014[13] and a second location opened in Brooklyn in 2016.[14]

Activism

Moskowitz at a Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti event

Moskowitz is a vocal opponent of "humane meat",[15] promoting animal rights through what she calls "Culinary Activism" or "Baketivism":[16][17]

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[18] which resulted in over $75,000 being raised.[17]

Bibliography

Cookbooks

  • Vegan with a Vengeance. 2005. ISBN 1-56924-358-1
  • Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, with Terry Hope Romero. 2006. ISBN 1-56924-273-9
  • Veganomicon, with Terry Hope Romero. 2007. ISBN 1-56924-264-X
  • Vegan Brunch. 2009. ISBN 0-7382-1272-5
  • Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar, with Terry Hope Romero. 2009. ISBN 1-60094-048-X
  • Appetite for Reduction. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60094-049-1
  • Vegan Pie in the Sky. 2011. ISBN 978-0-7382-1274-6
  • Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week. Little, Brown. 2013. ISBN 978-0-316-22190-0.
  • Vegan with a Vengeance, 10th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock. 2015. ISBN 978-0738218335
  • The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook: Entertaining for Absolutely Every Occasion. 2016. ISBN 978-0-316-22189-4
  • I Can Cook Vegan. 2019. ISBN 978-1419732416
  • Fake Meat: Real Food For Vegan Appetites. Abrams. 2023. ISBN 978-1419747458.[19]

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Moskin, Julia (2007-01-24). "Strict Vegan Ethics, Frosted With Hedonism". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  2. ↑ "Vegan Baking & Vegan Cooking". Post Punk Kitchen. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  3. ↑ Kot, Anna (2023-06-02). "21 Plant-Based Chefs You Need To Know". Tasting Table. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  4. 1 2 Moskowitz, Isa Chandra.Vegan With a Vengeance. Marlowe & Company, 2005, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Kramer, Rachel (2005-11-03). "Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Creator, Post Punk Kitchen, Author, Vegan With a Vengeance". Gothamist. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  6. ↑ All Hail the Vegan Queen
  7. ↑ "Secrets of the Ultimate Vegan Cookbook". NPR. Archived from the original on 2022-07-26.
  8. ↑ Makhijani, Pooja (2022-10-14). "The 16 Best Vegan Cookbooks for 2023". Food & Wine. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  9. ↑ Makhijani, Pooja (2023-11-02). "The 18 Best Vegan Cookbooks for Every Type of Meal". Food & Wine. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  10. ↑ Post Punk Kitchen's Isa Chandra Moskowitz Talks Opening Modern Love in Brooklyn
  11. ↑ Chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz Makes Vegan Work, from Omaha to Brooklyn
  12. ↑ Brooklyn’s Modern Love Brings Vegan Punk Ethos to the Table
  13. ↑ Baker, Lindsey Anne (2014-12-03). "Modern Love". Omaha Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
  14. ↑ Lynch, Scott (2016-10-11). "Williamsburg Gets A Vegan Restaurant For Grown-Ups With Modern Love" (article). Quick Bites. Gothamist. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  15. ↑ Moskowitz, Isa Chandra (2007-05-14). "It's Wrong to Kill Meat-Eaters". Jewcy.com. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  16. ↑ Moskowitz, Isa Chandra (June–July 2007). "Vegan Culinary Activism in 10 Yummy Steps". Satya. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  17. 1 2 Castoria, Elizabeth. "Vegan MoFo Returns". Vegnews.com. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  18. ↑ "Vegan Bake Sales For Haiti". Post Punk Kitchen. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  19. ↑ NEW RELEASES IN LIFESTYLE BOOKS: WINTER 2023
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