Emani Corcran shares delicious vegan recipes with over 130,000 followers on her Instagram feed. And her new cookbook, “Blk+Vegan: Full Flavored, Protein-Packed Recipes From My Kitchen to Yours” drops on March 14. But the vegan diet is something new for Corcran. In fact, growing up, she says that meat was a part of practically every meal. “I would have bacon and a biscuit and sausage for breakfast, a deli sandwich for lunch, and rib tips or pork chops for dinner,” she said. “Meat with every meal was so normalized that I don’t think we had a regular vegetarian dish.”
But that all changed in 2019 when she and her now-fiancé watched “What the Health,” a documentary that explores food’s relationship to cancer and disease. “[Cancer] is something that runs in my family. It’s something that I always thought was genetic and bound to happen to me,” she said. “But when I found out there was a correlation to food, it really struck a nerve in me.” Read more.
