Gaz Oakley

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Gaz Oakley, formerly known as the Avant-Garde Vegan, is a chef and cookbook author from

Daily Telegraph as "a star of the meat-free world", whose "recipes have gained the respect of herbivores and carnivores alike".[1]

Career

Oakley, who grew up in

Jme, Oakley looked up videos of Gary Yourofsky, and it was these that encouraged him to switch to a vegan lifestyle. After success encouraging friends and family to transition to veganism, he decided to use his cookery experience as a form of activism. He launched the @avantgardevegan Instagram page in February 2016, and, later that year, gave up his sales job to focus full-time on activism and cookery. The Avant-Garde Vegan YouTube channel was launched at the end of the year.[2] Oakley told The Sunday Times that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in his subscriber numbers hitting one million.[3]

Oakley went on to write several vegan cookbooks, as well as partner with The Vurger Co. and Wagamama to create vegan foods.[2] In 2023, VegNews listed Oakley as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food" in 2023,[4] and also named Vegan 100 as one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024.[5]

Books

  • Vegan 100 (Quadrille Publishing, 2018)
  • Vegan Christmas (Quadrille Publishing, 2018)
  • Plants Only Kitchen (Quadrille Publishing, 2020)

References

  1. Daily Telegraph
    . Accessed 8 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Gaz Oakley's story". GazOakleychef.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  3. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  4. ^ Pointing, Charlotte (27 July 2023). "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food". VegNews. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  5. ^ Pointing, Charlotte (10 January 2024). "The Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time". VegNews. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

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