Ep 20: Cheese! with Miyoko Schinner
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re talking about all things cheese and why so many aspiring vegans find it difficult to give it up. Momo and Evy share some charming details about the process of dairy cheese production and then compare the nutritional content of dairy cheese vs vegan cheese. Later on, (24.20) we interview the phenomenal Miyoko Schinner, vegan cheese queen and founder of Miyoko’s Kitchen her early struggles going vegan while being a cheese aficionado, and how she founded her legendary vegan cheese empire. Also on this episode…
- What is rennet?
- The chemically addictive properties of dairy cheese
- How do you quit your cheese addiction? We discuss how to get cheese out of your system.
- Miyoko shares what it was like being vegan 30 years ago compared to the vegan scene today: ‘This is the renaissance of the vegan movement.’
- Miyoko discusses being a huge ‘stinky gooey funky cheese aficionado’ and why she believes being vegan shouldn’t be prohibitive of enjoying the finest foods.
- Being a bonne vivante vegan : ‘Joy comes with being a vegan when you realise you’re no longer causing harm.’
- The process of making vegan cheese: Miyoko describes the life of a vegan cheese.
- Is vegan cheese healthy? Are dairy and vegan cheeses nutritional equivalents?
- ‘I think we need health on both an emotional level and a physical level. Sometimes having a delicious baguette with a big thick slab of vegan butter on it can be quite healthy for the spirit.’
- What’s it like launching a vegan cheese business and how Miyoko built her brand.
- ‘I really see our competitor as being the dairy industry.’
- Phenomenally Vegan: Miyoko explains why she thinks it’s important to be loud and proud about your vegan values.
- Miyoko shares good basic cheese recipes
- Tips for giving up dairy cheese: ‘Go snuggle up with a cow’.
- 'There’s a wider array of foods available when you go vegan because you’re thinking outside the box.'
Links:
Tomorrow’s Creamery - Cashew vs Dairy infographic
Miyoko's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
The Cheese Trap Book by Dr. Neal Barnard
PETA UK - Ultimate Guide to Vegan Cheese
PETA USA - Everything you need to know about Vegan Cheese
PETA AUS/NZ - The Ultimate Guide to Vegan Cheese
If you'd like to take part in a 'The 1 month no cheese experiment' in the GLO Vegan Community on FB, join here: www.facebook.com/groups/GloVegan
Social Media
Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod
Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod
Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast
Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko
Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis
Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, do, do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.7 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. It's not hard to be begin. |
| 0:14.9 | The chicken. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, lovely chickpeeps and welcome to episode 20. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm so happy we reached our episode |
| 0:21.1 | 20 and we're celebrating it with a big episode. This is the episode on cheese, which has |
| 0:26.6 | been much requested by you guys. And also cheese is the reason that so many people use |
| 0:31.8 | as why they can't go vegan, why they will stay as a vegetarian. So many people are just addicted to it. |
| 0:38.6 | And today we're going to investigate why you're addicted to cheese, how non-vegan cheese is made, |
| 0:43.3 | and tips to help you cut cheese out of your life. |
| 0:46.4 | And for this episode, I'm joined by the lovely Momo. |
| 0:48.9 | Hello, Momo. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello. |
| 0:51.0 | And Momo is a cheese fan. |
| 0:53.2 | I know this. |
| 0:57.4 | And she's also a very knowledgeable vegan cheese fan. So we're going to talk about that today. And later on on the show, we're going to be interviewing Miyoka Shinner. |
| 1:01.7 | Miyoko is a vegan cheese queen. She's also the founder of Miyoko's kitchen. And she's written several |
| 1:06.6 | books, recipe books on making vegan cheese. And she's just amazing. She also has her own sanctuary. |
| 1:12.9 | She's just wonderful. And so we will be interfering her later on. But for now, I thought it would be |
| 1:18.0 | good to get started to talk about how exactly dairy cheese is made. Mom, I know you know a lot |
| 1:25.2 | about this. So could you possibly tell the chickpeeps, |
| 1:27.8 | what is the process of making dairy cheese? Sure. Essentially, the milk gets produced, |
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