Ep 19: Wicked Healthy with Derek Sarno
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
You may be thinking that for a vegan podcast we really don't spend much time discussing how to make delicious, simple, healthy vegan food. We thought that too, so this week we are joined by talented chef, co-founder of Wicked Healthy, Director of Plant-Based Innovation at Tesco, and all-around wonderful person, Derek Sarno. Evy and the newest ChickPeeps recruit, MJ, talk to Derek about Buddhism, why he prefers the term 'free from animals' over veganism, and the future of plant-based food. Also on this episode...
- Meet MJ, friend to The ChickPeeps and our very first guest-host!
- What is Varganism? MJ explains the latest craze in the plant-based world.
- Derek explains why he went vegan or ‘free from animals’.
- How losing the love of his life led Derek to Buddhism and a deeper empathy with animals.
- ‘It hurt so bad that I didn’t want anyone else to feel that pain.’
- Derek explains the parallels between going vegan and the five steps of grief.
- Vegan food for meat eaters: Derek shares the inspiration behind the Wicked Healthy range.
- When you’re not a foodie: Some basic recipes and tips for beginner vegan cooks.
- How to train yourself to like gross vegetables: Evy shares a dark vegan secret.
- 'You can find an excuse not to do anything…whatever it is, cleaning your room, veganism… it’s the reasons to do it that really matter.'
- ‘Plant-pushers not meat-shamers’: Derek tells us about the versatility of mushrooms as a non-processed plant-protein and how he hopes the farming industry will embrace them.
- “I don’t need anything to die for me to live a very happy and successful life.”
- We discuss snobbery towards vegans in the restaurant business and how to earn respect from non vegan chefs.
- 'There’s no way that the way we eat now can sustain itself, there’s some immediate actions that need to be happen and it’s not eating animals.'
- Uh-oh, we screwed up! The ChickPeeps receive an update on the fennec fox story from a listener and we are sorry.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do, do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.6 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.4 | It's not hard to be begin the chicken. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello, lovely chickpeeps. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to episode 19. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm your host, Evie Lynch. |
| 0:22.7 | And today I have our very first guest co-host on the chickpeeps. Welcome to episode 19. I'm your host, Evie Lynch. And today I have our very first guest co-host on the chickpeeps, neither Momo nor Robbie nor Tyler. Today I have my very |
| 0:28.5 | dear friend, MJ, who I've been wanting to get on the podcast for such a long time. |
| 0:33.0 | MJ's also an actor and also a vegan. And MJ is somebody who makes me laugh more than anybody else. |
| 0:38.4 | So I know you guys will enjoy his presence. |
| 0:40.8 | MJ, you are our very first guest co-host. |
| 0:43.6 | How special do you feel? |
| 0:44.7 | I am very honored indeed. |
| 0:46.8 | In fact, I've heard several of these podcasts and a great team. |
| 0:51.4 | You do an amazing job, I have to say. |
| 0:56.8 | So to be here is, in all seriousness, |
| 1:00.6 | absolutely thrilled. So thanks for asking me. And listeners, in a few minutes, we're going to be interviewing Derek Sarno. Derek Sarno is the co-founder of Wicked Healthy and a chef who doesn't |
| 1:06.6 | like to be called a vegan chef. And he tells us exactly why in the interview. And he also is going |
| 1:11.8 | to tell us about his new range for Tesco and where he sees the future of the food industry |
| 1:16.0 | and the restaurant industry in particular in terms of the move towards more plant-based food. |
| 1:20.8 | MJ, we have been friends for like five years. Already. Yeah. We met in 2013 when we were doing |
| 1:27.0 | to play together. MJ is also an 2013 when we were doing to play together. |
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