Tracye McQuirter

Last updated
Tracye McQuirter
Tracye McQuirter.jpg
BornWashington, DC
OccupationPublic Health Nutritionist
Vegan Activist
Author
speaker
Education New York University (MPH, Public Health Nutrition)
Amherst College (BA, African American Studies)
Sidwell Friends School
GenreVegan Education, Activism, Lifestyle
Notable worksAgeless Vegan (2018)
By Any Greens Necessary (2010) “African Vegan Starter Guide” (2015)
Website
byanygreensnecessary.com

Tracye McQuirter is an African-American public health nutritionist and a Vegan/Plant-based [1] author who appears in the 2024 documentary, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment . [2]

Contents

Background

McQuirter grew up in Washington D.C. and graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1984. [3] [4] She received her B.A. from Amherst College in 1988 [5] and her Masters in Public Health Nutrition (MPH) from New York University in 2003. [4]

Career

Actor and activist Dick Gregory introduced McQuirter to vegetarianism in 1986 when he gave a talk on the subject at Amherst during her sophomore year. [6] [7] When she was a junior, she spent a semester in Kenya and had experiences there that made her decide to become a vegetarian. During her second semester, when she was an exchange student at Howard University, she discovered what she later described as a "large Black vegan and vegetarian community in Washington D.C." This group, which was also influenced by Gregory and his book Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ With Mother Nature, taught her how to be a vegan. However, at that time McQuirter notes that, "there were not a lot of options in terms of grocery stores. There was no Whole Foods... we had to basically cook everything for ourselves." [8] [6] [9]

McQuirter co-founded "BlackVegetarians.com" (1996-1997), the first vegan website by and for African Americans. [6] [10]

According to the New York Times, her 2010 book, By Any Greens Necessary contributed to the rise of veganism among African-Americans between the time of its release and 2017 (when the article was published). [11] She also co-authored the African American Vegan Starter Guide in 2016 with the Farm Sanctuary. [12]

Honors

Vegetarian Times named her a "New Food Hero" in 2017, [13] and Self Magazine listed her cookbook Ageless Vegan as one of the "16 Best Healthy Cookbooks" of 2018. [14] In 2019, she was inducted into the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame [10] and PBS named her a "Woman Thought Leader." [15] In 2024, VegNews listed McQuirter as one of the "17 Black Vegan Chefs Redefining Plant-Based Food and Community." [16]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isa Chandra Moskowitz</span> American food writer

Isa Chandra Moskowitz is an American vegan chef, cookbook author, former host of the vegan community access cooking show Post Punk Kitchen, and restaurateur.

The Toronto Vegetarian Association (TVA), also known as VegTO, is a volunteer-driven, charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1945, its mission is to inspire people to choose a healthier, greener, more compassionate lifestyle through plant-based eating.

Lauren Toyota is a vegan cookbook author and creator of the blog, Hot for Food. She is a former Canadian television personality.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bryant Terry</span>

Bryant Terry is an African-American vegan chef, food justice activist, and author. He has written four vegan cookbooks and cowrote a book about organic eating. He won a 2015 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award for his food justice work. In 2021 he was awarded a NAACP Image Award for his book Vegetable Kingdom, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.

Jewish Veg is an international 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to encourage and help Jews to embrace plant-based diets as an expression of the Jewish values of compassion for animals, concern for health, and care for the environment. Jewish Veg was formerly called Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) and, prior to that, the Jewish Vegetarian Society of America.

Jewish vegetarianism is a commitment to vegetarianism that is connected to Judaism, Jewish ethics or Jewish identity. Jewish vegetarians often cite Jewish principles regarding animal welfare, environmental ethics, moral character, and health as reasons for adopting a vegetarian or vegan diet.

Nava Atlas is an American vegan cookbook author and artist known for her work as a maker of artist's books.

Derek Sarno is an American plant-based chef, cookbook writer and co-founder of the website Wicked Kitchen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ori Shavit</span> Israeli writer and activist

Ori Shavit is an Israeli writer, journalist, blogger, restaurateur, restaurant critic, and animal rights activist. She runs a popular vegan food blog, "Vegan Girls Have More Fun." Shavit has been noted for her workshops and lectures on vegan cooking and her advocacy for animal rights and veganism.

Toni Fiore is an American TV host, cookbook author, and chef, focusing on vegetarian and vegan dishes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miyoko Schinner</span> Japanese-American vegan activist

Miyoko Schinner is an American vegan chef, cookbook author, cooking show host, vegan activist, and social entrepreneur, who appears in the 2024 documentary, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment. She is currently the host of the YouTube cooking show, The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko, and is working on her next cookbook, The Vegan Creamery, which will be released in 2025.

Avery Yale Kamila is an American journalist and community organizer in the state of Maine. Kamila has written a food column for the Portland Press Herald /Maine Sunday Telegram and its affiliated newspapers since 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pinky Cole</span> American restaurateur

Aisha "Pinky" Cole is an American restaurateur. She is the owner and operator of Slutty Vegan, a plant-based burger restaurant chain in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2023, she was added to the Time magazine 100 Next list, recognizing individuals with an outsized influence on American culture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Black veganism</span> Socio-political philosophy in the United States

Black veganism in the United States is a social and political philosophy that connects the use of non-human animals with other social justice concerns such as racism and with the lasting effects of slavery, such as the subsistence diets of enslaved people enduring as familial and cultural food traditions. Sisters Syl Ko and Aph Ko first proposed the intersectional framework for and coined the term Black veganism. The Institute for Critical Animal Studies called Black veganism an "emerging discipline".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vegan Museum</span> Exhibition traveling around Chicago

The Vegan Museum is a nonprofit travelling exhibition about veganism and vegetarianism. The exhibition tours different locations in and around Chicago. The Vegan Museum documents the history of the vegan and vegetarian movement in the United States.

The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) is a vegetarian cookbook by Anna Thomas, which contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s.

Toni Okamoto is an American plant-based cookbook author, who appears in the 2017 plant-based diet documentary, What the Health.

Nisha Vora is an American Vegan/Plant-based cookbook author.

References

  1. ↑ Uwumarogie, Victoria (2023-05-16). "Black Americans Are Going Vegan At A Higher Rate Than Anyone Else. Here's Why And How You Can Do It Too". Essence . Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  2. ↑ Chiorando, Maria. "Vegans have better sex, live longer and are healthier – according to new Netflix documentary". Vegan Food & Living. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Sidwell Friends School 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award". Sidwell Friends School. 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  4. 1 2 Milloy, Courtland (2020-04-28). "Inequities helped covid-19 ravage the black community. But there are things we can do to help ourselves". Washington Post . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  5. ↑ "Amherst College Alumni Reunion 2018". Amherst College. 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  6. 1 2 3 Jones, Alexis (2019-06-29). "RACE AND THE ROOTS OF VEGANISM". NEHA Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  7. ↑ McQuirter, Tracye (2018-07-11). "'I'm Vegan And I've Got More Energy Now Than I Did In College'". Women's Health . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  8. ↑ Associated Press (2011-01-05). "Vegan Diets Become More Popular, More Mainstream". CBS News . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  9. ↑ Phanor-Faury, Alexandra (2015-04-08). "Vegetarianism: A Black Choice". Ebony . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  10. 1 2 Hussain, Ruksana (2020-04-07). "Tracye McQuirter Spearheads a Vegan Movement for Black Women Everywhere". Cuisine Noir. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  11. ↑ Severson, Kim (2017-11-28). "Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes". New York Times . Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  12. ↑ Phanor-Faury, Alexandra (2016-09-28). "New African American Vegan Starter Guide Revamps the Plate of Black America". Farm Sanctuary . Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  13. ↑ Dowdle, Hillari (2017-05-01). "The New Food Heroes". Vegetarian Times . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  14. 1 2 Byrne, Christine (2018-10-20). "The 16 Best Healthy Cookbooks of the Year". Self Magazine . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  15. ↑ PBS (2019-12-22). "Woman Thought Leader: Tracye McQuirter". PBS . Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  16. ↑ Flink, Tanya (February 19, 2024). "The Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time". VegNews . Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  17. ↑ Cleary, Lisa (2010-10-14). "A Revolution to Lose Weight, Look Phat". WRC-TV (NBC4 Washington). Retrieved 2020-06-07.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.