Angela Rummans is known for her time on the CBS show Big Brother Season 20, back in 2018. Now she runs Naut & Chain, her jewelry company that she started with Tyler Crispen, and has since put out a best-selling bookUnbothered. Just last month, Rummans released her second book calledAngelas Plant-based Kitchen,that is filled with vegan recipes we cant wait to whip up in our kitchen!

Our team got a chance to sit down with Angela to dive into her passion behind vegan cooking and see what some of her favorite recipes are!

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Q: What sparked your journey to become plant based?

A: About seven years ago I was training for the Olympics as a professional pole vaulter and I picked up a book at our neighborhood Barnes & Noble that I thought was all about just general health and nutrition, which Ive always had an interest in. A couple chapters in I realized it was about veganism! I read the whole book through probably in one sitting and it negated everything I had ever believed about my nutritional goals and it totally blew my mind. From that point on, I had to know if what I read had any truth behind it, so I went fully vegan 30 days before my biggest track and field meet of the season. I was fully anticipating this new diet to be a complete disaster, and to my surprise it was the complete opposite. My energy levels dramatically changed for the better. I was recovering from workouts quicker and just overall felt healthier in a general sense. I placed 6th at Nationals that year (my highest finish ever) and I knew at that point I was onto something here. The next couple years I lacked the support system so I was the on again off again vegan up until this past December, my boyfriend and I decided to commit once and for good. There were a number of reasons behind our decision to transition for good.

Q: If you could choose your favorite recipe from your new book, what would it be?A: Wow, thats a really hard one. Considering sushi is my favorite food, my miso tofu rainbow roll. I could eat that everyday. My boyfriend would say the buffalo chickpea pizza.

Q: What has been something you make for people to help them go vegan/show them how delicious vegan food can be?A: Ive had one recipe thats been kind of viral with my following and thats the Bang Bang Cauliflower. Everyone that tries it, literally says I could eat this everyday and many of them confess to hating vegetables too!

Q: What are your goals for your new cookbook?

A: Im the shoot for the stars type so with that said, its my dream to get my cookbook into Whole Foods! The plant-based movement is really taking off and it would be such an honor to be one of their first fully plant-based cookbooks available in stores.

Find a sneak preview of some of Angelas recipes here:

Healthy Peach Cobbler

Spicy Peanut Noodles

Chickpea Omlete Two Ways

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Q&A With Angela Rummans on her new book Angela's Plant-based Kitchen - VEGWORLD Magazine