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Isa Chandra Moskowitz is an American vegan chef, cookbook author, former host of the vegan community access cooking show Post Punk Kitchen, and restaurateur. Her first restaurant, Modern Love, opened in Omaha in 2014[1] and a second location opened in Brooklyn in 2016.[2]

Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Moskowitz in Omaha, Nebraska, 2010
Born	(1973-02-03) February 3, 1973 (age 49) Brooklyn, New York
Culinary career
Cooking style	Vegan
Television show(s) Post Punk Kitchen (2003–2005)
Award(s) won VegNews Veggie Award: Favorite Cookbook Author (2007–10)

Biography

Raised in Brooklyn, New York, and having dropped out of The High School of Music & Art, where she majored in fine art, Moskowitz found herself drawn toward the punk rock scene of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1980s, embracing first a vegetarian diet, then veganism.[3] She also volunteered with Food Not Bombs.[4] an anarchist organization that provides free vegan meals to the homeless and needy.

The inspiration to create her own cooking show came while watching the Food Network and wondering to herself why there were no vegan shows.[5] According to Moskowitz, the show used the title The Post Punk Kitchen to signify the feeling of being "older and facing the conundrum of growing up and making compromises that their eighteen-year-old selves might hate them for".[5] The success of The Post Punk Kitchen led to the compilation of a cookbook, Vegan with a Vengeance, in late 2005, and a number of additional cookbooks over the years.[6][7][8]

In April 2008, she relocated from New York to Portland, Oregon, then to Omaha, Nebraska. Her restaurant, Modern Love, has locations in Omaha and Brooklyn.[9][10][11]

Activism

Moskowitz is a vocal opponent of "humane meat",[12] promoting animal rights through what she calls "Culinary Activism" or "Baketivism":[13]

I think that activism isn't what you decide to do but how it affects people. So if someone says, I'm going to become an activist! I'm going to stand on a street corner and preach about veganism! And then they go ahead and do that but no one listens and no one becomes vegan, then is that activism? On the other hand, maybe there's a girl in the middle of nowhere who loves animals and decided to bake vegan. And then people taste her cupcakes and are like "What the hell, I'll go vegan, too." Obviously, I think the latter is more effective, but I guess people might not see it as activism.[14]

After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Moskowitz posted on her blog a call for vegans to host bake sales in their home cities to fundraise for relief[15] which resulted in over $75,000 being raised.[14]

Publications

Cookbooks

• Vegan with a Vengeance. 2005. ISBN 1-56924-358-1
• Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, with Terry Hope Romero. 2006. ISBN 1-56924-273-9
• Veganomicon, with Terry Hope Romero. 2007. ISBN 1-56924-264-X
• Vegan Brunch. 2009. ISBN 0-7382-1272-5
• Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar, with Terry Hope Romero. 2009. ISBN 1-60094-048-X
• Appetite for Reduction. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60094-049-1
• Vegan Pie in the Sky. 2011. ISBN 978-0-7382-1274-6
• Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week. Little, Brown. 2013. ISBN 978-0-316-22190-0.
• Vegan with a Vengeance, 10th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock. 2015. ISBN 978-0738218335
• The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook: Entertaining for Absolutely Every Occasion. 2016. ISBN 978-0-316-22189-4
• I Can Cook Vegan. 2019. ISBN 978-1419732416

Articles

• 10 Essential Pantry Staples, According to Chefs, Vegetarian Times, May 17, 2022.
• Don’t fear the vegan at your Thanksgiving table, CNN, November 21, 2014.

See also

• Animal rights and punk subculture

Notes

External links

• Official website
• Isa Chandra Moskowitz - CNBC Make It

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