Mark is a chef and author with more than 20 years of experience preparing creative vegan and raw food cuisine. His first cookbook, Vegan Fusion World Cuisine, coauthored with Bo Rinaldi and featuring a foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall, has won several national awards, including a Gourmand Award for “Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the USA”. He is also author of the best selling cookbooks The 30 Minute Vegan, The 30 Minute Vegan's Taste Of The East, The 30 Minute Vegan's Taste of Europe, The Idiot's Guide To Eating Raw and Soup's On! He currently offers online vegan cooking lessons at CookingHealthyLessons.com, as well as vegan cooking and raw food preparation consulting, cookbooks, recipe development, cooking classes, workshops, chef training, intensives and retreats in both North America and Europe.