Richard Makin
Richard Makin is the cook, photographer and cookbook author behind School Night Vegan, sharing plant-based comfort food, everyday dinners and vegan bakes.
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Overview
- Known as
- School Night Vegan
- Work
- Recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and cookbook author
- Started
- School Night Vegan on Instagram in November 2017; the blog launched in November 2018
- Early favourite
- His stretchy vegan mozzarella recipe
- Books
- Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan (2023) and Stress-Free Dinners (2026)
Mini bio
From ice cream to plants.
Richard founded Blu Top, an ice cream sandwich business, in 2015 after returning from San Francisco. Sharing a production space with vegan street-food cooks Eat Chay helped him rethink dairy. A lifelong vegetarian, he became vegan in November 2017 and closed the business in 2018.
Learning in public.
School Night Vegan began on Instagram in 2017. Richard launched the blog in November 2018 after his husband encouraged him to record his recipes and lent him a DSLR. He taught himself food styling and photography through YouTube videos. By his 2019 account, the blog was his full-time job, and stretchy vegan mozzarella was his most successful recipe.
Recipes become books.
His work grew into recipe development with Wicked Kitchen and a 2020 cookbook deal with Bloomsbury. His debut, Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan, came out in 2023, exploring plant-based versions of familiar dishes. Stress-Free Dinners followed in July 2026, focusing on everyday meals with supermarket ingredients.
Beyond the recipe blog.
Richard also shares recipes and personal updates through his School Night Vegan newsletter. He hosts vegan holidays with The Getaway Co, and in October 2026 wrote to readers while leading a trip from Athens to Santorini.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2026Stress-Free DinnersAuthor and photographer
- 2023Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook VeganAuthor
Recipes and publishing
- 2020Wicked KitchenRecipe collaborator, introduced in the company’s February 2020 interview
- 2018School Night VeganBlog creator, recipe developer and food photographer
Awards
Quotes
I believe that everyone should feel free to enjoy vegan food, regardless of whether you’re skilled in the kitchen or not.Richard Makin, School Night Vegan
From his account of why he shares plant-based recipes.
Trivia
- The name School Night Vegan reflects the weeknight evenings he had free to experiment while running his ice cream business.
- His stretchy vegan mozzarella took more than 25 attempts to get right, according to his 2019 account.
- His husband helped get the blog started by suggesting it and lending him an old DSLR camera.
- He developed his apple cider muffins with his mum after she brought apples from her garden.
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