About Me

Hi! My name is Kim Garr.  I’m originally from the Chicago area, and now live in Los Angeles with my filmmaker husband, Ryan and our little (well, maybe not so little) cat, Maya.

All of the food that I cook and everything you’ll see on this blog is 100% vegan.  Ryan and I are vegan probably 99.9% of the time.  We never eat meat, but we try to be flexible if we’re in the type of situation where maybe good friends have made us dinner and the bread has some whey in it, or something like that.  Maya is not vegan, but her favorite food is Earth Balance.  Not that we ever let her lick it off our fingers or anything like that, she just told me that she likes it.

Since I was a little girl I’ve always loved to bake, and three years ago I started working as a professional baker at Leda’s Bakeshop here in Los Angeles.  It took some time, but I was eventually able to convince the owner that vegan baked goods don’t all taste like cardboard.  She took a chance on me and supported my starting a vegan line at the shop.  It was both rewarding and challenging – particularly dealing with non-vegans who were really skeptical that vegan foods can taste great.  Ledette moved on to other ventures, and I decided that vegan baking was my passion and the path I needed to pursue.  Just like that, C’est La V Bakeshop was born!

I think it’s important that people see that this way of eating can be as delicious, if not more so, than the standard American diet.  Most people think that being vegan is difficult, bland or just not worth the trouble and what they see as sacrifice.  I hope that this blog, as one more voice in the overwhelmingly growing vegan movement, can help dispel those myths.

Why the name “C’est La Vegan”?  Sometimes “c’est la vie” is all you can really say when life happens.  Why try to make sense of it?  It’s just life.  At this point, I’m done trying to figure it all out and just want some good food!

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