Showing Kitchens HOW to Make Vegan Food

More places want to include vegan options on their menus but don't know how.  Here's what Kristie Middleton and her Human Society are doing.  (Copied from the transcripts of her interview on One Green Planet, Nil Zacharia's podcast.

...we were very fortunate to bring on several food service professionals who had decades of experience in working within that field, who we could use to advise us on best practices, and then ultimately, what we decided to do was develop a culinary program. So, now we have several chefs on our team who go to institutions and do hands-on, in-the-kitchen training for culinarians, and that's really flipped the notion of plant-based food on its head for many people.

I mentioned the culinary training that we do. We have now three chefs on our team that travel across the country and deliver hands-on, in-the-kitchen training to chefs, and I'll just share that I feel like that's been one of our most popular and most important tools, because we have chefs who come into the kitchen with a real bad notion of what plant-based food is.

                They have some preconceived ideas, they're not excited to be there, and I've literally gotten feedback on one of our surveys that said, "I came in wondering what these jerks were going to teach me about eating vegetables, and I left having completely changed my mind," because we're showing them food that is really simple to make, that's just taking the techniques that they are used to using and using soy milk instead of milk, or Earth Balance instead of margarine. So, we're serving really decadent, delicious foods, but they happen to be vegan.