Vegan innovator and Miyoko Schinner isn’t your typical cheesemonger. The founder and former CEO of Petaluma’s vegan Miyoko’s Creamery, she’s now on a mission to share her recipes in a new cookbook all about plant-based alternatives to dairy products like milk, cheese and even ice cream. And when she wasn’t at the bench testing how different plant oils react to cheese cultures, she founded a nonprofit farm animal rescue, Rancho Compasión in Nicasio.

You might recognize the epicurean activist’s name if you’ve browsed grocery store shelves and seen Miyoko’s Creamery-branded plant-based cheeses and butters. Even though she started the brand in 2014, she was controversially ousted as the company’s CEO in June 2022 and is no longer a part of the business. Her latest cookbook, “The Vegan Creamer

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