Check Out Mario Fabbri’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Mario Fabbri.

Hi Mario, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I’m a plant-based chef in Los Angeles, CA, but I grew up in Chicago working at my dad’s Italian sausage factory. I went from creating sausage spice blends to cooking vegan cauliflower wings after I saw one of my friends reverse his medical condition by switching to a vegan diet.

I think of food as fuel and I focus on making healthy food with an innovative twist. For example; I’ll use my dehydrator to dehydrate mushrooms until they’re crispy, then turn them into a powder to add a healthy, umami boost to soups and marinades.

When the 2020 pandemic hit, I shut down my event catering business because, obviously, no one was having events. During that time, I started teaching people how to dehydrate food on Titktok. I have a background in film so it was easy to set up a camera in my kitchen and shoot home cooking videos. The videos resonated with people and now I teach vegan cooking through my Tiktok channel: @vegarecipes to 500K followers.

My goals right now are to learn as much as I can about food, to help feed the world and to keep expanding my culinary horizons.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I’ve been very lucky that my path has been smooth, I’ve had incredible mentors and I’ve been able to stay present along the way.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I have two businesses in the food space; a production studio and catering. But the thing I’m most proud of is my TEDx talk on sustainable cooking. It’s called “Delicious Recipes To Save The Planet” and you can check it out on www.ted.com.

For the past ten years, I’ve run a video production company called Banana Reel where we make commercials for food businesses. Since the pandemic hit, we started to specialize in social media. We’ve helped our clients gain over two million followers on their Tiktok/Instagram cooking shows.

The second part of my business is catering. I cater events for high-level performers in the Los Angeles area. I make plant-based food that everyone can enjoy.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.tryingveganwithmario.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariofabbrichef/
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@veganrecipes