07/23/2025
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The nation’s first plant-based culinary and nutrition education center located in St. Louis, MO
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The nationan’s first plant-based nutrition and culinary education center
Rooted deep in the St. Louis food and wellness scene, I am a plant-based nutrition, culinary and lifestyle educator with a simple mission, “A Plant on Every Plate.”
My name is Caryn and I adopted a plant-based diet in response to tragedy; in 2008, cancer took my dad at an early age and 10 weeks later, I too, was diagnosed. In response to my diagnosis, I searched for an answer and found one in the growing body of literature supporting a whole food, plant-based diet to bolster our natural immune system. I adopted this way of eating and soon, sought to share this knowledge to help others.
In 2011, I studied in Washington, DC, under the direction of Neal Barnard, MD at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s (PCRM) Food For Life program and became a certified instructor. I brought this knowledge home, and began teaching immune-boosting, plant-based cooking classes at the Cancer Support Center of St. Louis for the benefit of others who have, like me, met cancer at the door. It was during my first visit to CSC as an instructor where the idea of building a fully plant-based support and education center formulated. The seed was planted.
I then went on to form STLVegGirl, LLC, St. Louis’ first fully plant-based entity providing cooking instruction, personal chef services, meal delivery, and collaborative restaurant events. I remain continually grateful to our local media outlets and regularly appear in cooking and nutrition segments on St. Louis affiliates of NBC, CBS and Fox morning shows.
