1. Miyoko Schinner is an American-Japanese vegan chef, cookbook author, activist, cooking show host and social entrepreneur.
17 Facts About Miyoko Schinner
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Miyoko Schinner left Japan and moved to the United States when she was seven.
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Miyoko Schinner describes this period as "the 60s and early 70s, the glory days of the hippie movement and spiritualism and hare krishna," or the turn to natural foods within the American counterculture.
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Miyoko Schinner began college at the Pratt Institute in order to study graphic design, but dropped out after a year.
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Miyoko Schinner started a small business called "Madam Miyoko" and sold vegan poundcakes, out of her backpack.
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Miyoko Schinner returned to the United States and settled in San Francisco, where she opened a vegan bakery.
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However, as more orders came in for the Unturkey as well as different products, Miyoko Schinner found herself overwhelmed.
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Miyoko Schinner found investors more interested in investing in tech, as it was the dot-com boom.
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In 2012, Miyoko Schinner published Artisan Vegan Cheese, a cookbook that focused entirely on the production of vegan cheese.
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Miyoko Schinner co-hosted the PBS cooking show Vegan Mashup for three seasons with Toni Fiore and Terry Hope Romero.
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Miyoko Schinner initially thought her cookbook Artisan Vegan Cheese had given readers all the tools that they would need to create vegan cheese.
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Miyoko Schinner thus founded Miyoko's Kitchen in 2014, as an online business.
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Miyoko Schinner launched the company with herself as CEO and four employees on a Friday, and by Monday they had 50,000 orders.
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In February 2023, Miyoko's Creamery announced that Schinner was no longer CEO, and that it and Schinner had parted ways.
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In 2023, Schinner launched the YouTube cooking show, The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko.
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Miyoko Schinner is considered a pioneer in the production of vegan cheese.
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Miyoko and Michael Schinner have three children, a son and two daughters.