Over the years, Netflix has released several documentaries highlighting the importance of a person's diet. You Are What You Eat is the latest vegan documentary released on the platform. With its release, viewers are asking: Where is Chef Miyoko Schinner from You Are What You Eat now?
In this article, we'll be talking about the show and the role that Chef Miyoko Schinner played in the documentary, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment.
What is Netflix's You Are What You Eat?
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment is Netflix's latest vegan docuseries that hopes to convince people to switch to a plant-based diet.
The series takes a look at a 2020 Stanford study that tested how the diets of 22 pairs of identical twins affected each other without the influence of lifestyle factors and genetic differences. The study aimed to look at how a plant-based food diet helped cardiovascular health.
Some of the expert voices that were featured in the docuseries include three-Michelin-starred chef Daniel Humm, Impossible Foods founder Pat Brown, public health nutritionist Tracye McQuirter, Wicked Kitchen co-founder Chad Sarno, vegan cheese queen Miyoko Schinner, and many others.
The series has a total of four episodes, which will open your eyes to the world of plant-based cooking.
You can check out the trailer here:
Who is Miyoko Schinner?
Miyoko Schinner is an American vegan chef, social entrepreneur, vegan activist, and cookbook author. She is recognized as the vegan cheese queen for innovating this product that she had missed after becoming vegan in the 80s (via The Chick Peeps).
Although she had other businesses before publishing her famous cookbook, Artisan Vegan Cheese in 2012, people wanted her to make and sell vegan cheese. Even though the cookbook included the tools needed to make cheese, she eventually decided to open Miyoko's Kitchen in 2014 as an online business.
Schinner's drive behind the business was to produce dairy-free products, such as butter and other cheeses, that the vegan community could enjoy. After gaining the nod from Tofurky's Seth Tibbott, Miyoko's Kitchen earned seed money of $1 million.
The business name was eventually changed to Miyoko's Creamery, with investments coming in from everywhere. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi invested in the business in 2019.
Following a lawsuit from the California Department of Food and Agriculture over its use of "Cheese" and "Butter" in its products, Miyoko's Creamery won on the grounds of the First Amendment.
Food & Wine magazine referred to Schinner's cookbook as "the seminal cookbook that put vegan cheesemaking on the map." This just proves how important Schinner's innovation was in the vegan industry.
Where is Miyoko Schinner from You Are What You Eat Series Today?
A year prior to the release of the You Are What You Eat docuseries, Miyoko's Creamery announced that they had removed Schinner as the company's CEO.
Shortly after this announcement, the company filed a lawsuit against the former CEO for allegedly misappropriating confidential information and copying data to her personal cloud after she was terminated as CEO.
In response to this, Lisa Bloom, Schinner's attorney, filed a wrongful termination countersuit for:
"The company's behavior in forcing her out of the company she created and built, then trashing her via an outrageously malicious and misleading lawsuit will be met with facts and witnesses showing that Miyoko's own complaints of toxic and sexist behavior by certain male executives were swept under the rug, and then she was demoted and fired."
Thankfully, the two parties were able to settle the legal disputes and withdraw the legal claims made in May 2023.
They also wished each other well despite the separation.
These days, Schinner hosts a YouTube cooking show called The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko.
She also keeps herself busy with her animal sanctuary, Rancho Compassion, which she founded in 2015. She has appointed her daughter, Camellia Schinner, as the sanctuary manager.
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