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Schinner was born Miyoko Nishimoto in a village outside Tokyo, Japan. At age seven, she moved with her family to the United States. She graduated from St. John’s College in Maryland.
Miyoko Schinner is the CEO/founder of Miyoko’s, a food brand combining culinary traditions with food technology to revolutionize dairy by making cheese and butter without cows. Under Schinner’s visionary leadership, Miyoko’s has become the fastest growing natural cheese brand in the U.S. and has replaced animal-dairy products on the shelves of more than 10,000 retailers nationwide including Target, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Kroger,and Safeway.
The pioneer of the plant-based cheese revolution, Schinner is a passionate culinarian, formerrestaurateur, best-selling author of five cookbooks, including the bestsellingThe HomemadeVegan Pantry(Ten Speed Press, 2015), co-host of the national PBS cooking showVeganMashup, and a founding board member of the Plant Based Foods Association.Schinner also co-founded Rancho Compasión, a farmed animal sanctuary in northern California that provides a home to over 70 farm animals.
