Candice Hutchings
Candice Hutchings is the Canadian creator behind The Edgy Veg, sharing vegan comfort food, everyday cooking videos and cookbooks for people who love a familiar meal made with plants.
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The Edgy VegOverview
- Also known as
- The Edgy Veg
- Work
- Vegan recipe creator, YouTuber and cookbook author
- YouTube beginnings
- 2012
- Breakout recipes
- Vegan Big Mac and Buffalo wings
- First cookbook
- The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes (2017)
Mini bio
How it started.
Candice began sharing recipes after going vegan and finding few options for the indulgent food she loved. She told The Vegan Review that requests from her mother and people in her mother’s church group led her to put recipes on a blog. Her YouTube channel followed in 2012.
Comfort food brought people in.
Her vegan versions of familiar favorites became a calling card. A 2016 Canadian Press profile singled out her Big Mac and Buffalo wings among her most popular recipes, and reported that she had left her advertising job the previous October to focus on The Edgy Veg full time.
From videos to cookbooks.
Her first cookbook, The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes, arrived in 2017. The 2022 follow-up, The Edgy Veg Easy Eats, collected 106 recipes designed to take less than 45 minutes. It reached the 2023 Taste Canada shortlist for Health or Special Diet Cookbooks.
Beyond the recipe.
Alongside cooking, Candice uses The Edgy Veg to discuss animal advocacy, the environment, mental health and female empowerment. Her more recent videos have mixed everyday vegan meals with reflections on habits and finding joy in daily life.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2022The Edgy Veg Easy EatsAuthor
- 2017The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan RecipesAuthor
Recipes
- 2014Vegan Buffalo WingsRecipe creator
Awards
Quotes
I try to do it in an approachable way, through storytelling as opposed to lecturing.Candice Hutchings, The Vegan Review
Discussing her approach to advocacy in an August 2020 interview.
Trivia
- Her father served in the Canadian Armed Forces in Germany, where he met her German mother. Candice grew up traveling between Canada and Germany.
- She told SideChef that her grandmother’s thin German pancakes, pfannkuchen, were her favorite childhood meal.
- Her stand mixer is a kitchen essential: she uses it for seitan, pizza dough and ice cream.
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