Derek Sarno: Wicked Healthy
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Derek Sarno is a chef and a rockstar in the vegan world and he's on a mission to inspire you to cook and eat more plants.
He's the Director of Plant-Based Innovation for Tesco PLC, and the Developer/Co-Founder of Wicked Kitchen. He helps lead Tesco's plant-based team and the initiative to bring delicious, unpretentious plant-based foods to mainstream market.
Derek and his brother Chad are the founders of Wicked Healthy, LLC., Wicked Foods inc. and Good Catch Foods.
Prior to Tesco, Derek served as the Senior Global Executive Chef for Whole Foods Market, where he oversaw global recipe development for the company's healthy eating initiative, worked with suppliers and leadership to develop and promote plant-based foods across the organization, and served as Culinary Director for the Whole Foods Academy for Conscious Leadership.
Derek is a serial entrepreneur, founding several award-winning restaurants and food service companies in the United States.
Derek is the co-author of the Whole Foods cookbook, and the Wicked Healthy Cookbook.
His journey has been fueled by curiosity and compassion, some of which he gained while living in a Buddhist monastery in Upstate New York, where he served as resident Chef & Gardener.
Derek's story is all about expansion and his life is an example of what it means to never stop evolving.
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| 0:00.0 | Species, species unite. |
| 0:15.0 | It's funny because in Tesco half the people didn't believe it like why do we need to sell |
| 0:19.2 | vegan food? It's never sold before and my whole theory is well you've never you don't have any no wonder why it's never sold before and as a vegan myself there was nothing for me to eat ever anywhere that was only five years ago, when there's nothing but a |
| 0:34.9 | full offer wrap to eat or a salad. I didn't want to compromise being a chef. |
| 0:39.0 | My taste, you know, I didn't want to be, I didn't want to be a hippie vegan. |
| 0:42.8 | Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novograt's. |
| 0:49.8 | This is Species Unite. |
| 0:52.0 | For the months of May, June, and July, species unite is celebrating |
| 0:56.3 | plant-based eating with vegan nights. All that really means is we would love for you |
| 1:02.4 | to cook dinner for your friends or |
| 1:05.5 | your family or your neighbor and make it vegan. On our website we have |
| 1:10.2 | downloadable post packs with recipes, tips, information to make your vegan night all the more |
| 1:17.2 | fun and better. |
| 1:19.0 | So go to our website species Unite.com and download a host pack and you will be entered to win one of six |
| 1:28.1 | two hundred and seventy five dollar vegan gift baskets that are filled with all sorts of incredible plant-based products. |
| 1:39.2 | This conversation is with Derek Sarno. |
| 1:43.0 | Derek is a chef and a rock star in the vegan world. |
| 1:47.0 | He is on a mission to inspire you to cook and eat more plants. |
| 1:51.0 | He's the developer and co-founder of Wicked Kitchen, the plant-based |
| 1:55.5 | brand that he and his brother Chad developed in collaboration with Tesco, the UK |
| 2:00.1 | grocery chain. His recipes are mind-blowingly delicious and some of the things |
| 2:04.7 | that he does with mushrooms will change your life. His journey has been fueled by |
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