Elizabeth Claire Buchel

Experience:
Elizabeth Claire Buchel has over seventeen years of vegetarian cooking and living experience. She first decided to become a vegetarian at the age of twelve after watching the movie, Babe. Although her initial reasons were for animal rights, she has come to appreciate the health benefits and environmentally friendly side of a plant-based diet.

One of the most common questions people ask Elizabeth when they find out she?s a vegan is: ?So what do you eat?? In her ?How to Make the Most Amazing Food? class, Elizabeth wants to show that a plant-based diet is much more than eating green salad! In fact, most people who take the time to learn about a plant-based diet are always pleasantly surprised how exciting, varied, and scrumptious vegan food can be.

Before she began to teach cooking, Elizabeth taught creative writing courses at Macquarie Community College for over four years. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Creative Writing. At the moment, she is writing a verse novel for young adults, as well as a vegan cookbook.