Rachel Ama
Rachel Ama is a London-born vegan recipe creator, cookbook author and founder of AMA’s sauces, sharing plant-based food shaped by Caribbean, Sierra Leonean and Welsh roots.
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Yellow Kite
Ebury PressOverview
- From
- London, with St Lucian, Sierra Leonean and Welsh roots
- Creates
- Vegan recipes, cookbooks and Caribbean condiments
- YouTube beginnings
- September 2017
- Debut cookbook
- Rachel Ama’s Vegan Eats, 2019
Mini bio
Food from home.
Rachel grew up in north London, surrounded by Caribbean, African and Welsh food traditions. After giving up dairy, a documentary about animal agriculture prompted an overnight move to vegan eating. Rachel began recreating familiar flavours with plants, including jerk oyster mushrooms and jackfruit “tuna” pasta.
Weekends became a career.
Rachel started sharing YouTube recipes in September 2017. At the time, Rachel worked full-time designing and running an online gift shop, then developed recipes and filmed at weekends. In a first-person Vogue essay, Rachel recalled reaching 180,000 subscribers within 18 months and turning a love of vegan cooking into a career after getting a book deal.
Books and jars.
Rachel Ama’s Vegan Eats arrived in 2019 and won PETA UK’s Best Vegan Cookbook award. One Pot: Three Ways followed in 2021, offering three ways to serve or transform a plant-based centrepiece. Rachel later added a family recipe ebook and AMA’s Caribbean sauces, including Jerk Marinade and Sticky Miso Jerk.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2024Rachel Ama’s Vegan Family RecipesAuthor, ebook
- 2021One Pot: Three WaysAuthor
- 2019Rachel Ama’s Vegan EatsAuthor
Awards
Quotes
After all, vegans don’t have to fit the same mould.Rachel Ama, British Vogue
From Rachel’s first-person essay published on 22 May 2019: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/rachel-ama-vegan-eats
Trivia
- Rachel’s first YouTube recipes were filmed at weekends alongside a full-time job running an online gift shop.
- Vegan Eats pairs a song with each recipe, turning the book into a cooking playlist too.
- Travelling through South America after university helped deepen Rachel’s love of cooking.
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