About this person
Isa Chandra Moskowitz is an American vegan chef, cookbook author, activist and former restaurateur. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and is best known for creating vegan recipes, the television programme Post Punk Kitchen and books about plant-based cooking.
She studied visual art at the High School of Music & Art but did not graduate. In the late 1980s, she was part of the punk rock scene on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She became vegetarian at that time and later vegan; she also volunteered with Food Not Bombs.
She has written or co-written Vegan with a Vengeance, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Veganomicon, Vegan Brunch, Isa Does It and I Can Cook Vegan. With Terry Hope Romero, she founded Post Punk Kitchen, a programme and community project that became the foundation of her subsequent work.