Sam Turnbull is a world-renowned, award-winning, bestselling cookbook author. Known affectionately for her sunny personality, she will brighten your kitchen with delicious plant-based meals that everyone loves (vegan or not)! She is the author of the best-selling cookbooks Fuss-Free Vegan and Fast Easy Cheap Vegan published by Appetite by Random House. Fast Easy Cheap Vegan won the silver medal for best cookbook in Canada at the 2022 Taste Canada Awards.
Sam also runs an online cooking school, a subscription meal planner, and is a social media influencer with 500k + followers across her channels. Sam and her recipes have been featured across TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, podcasts, public speaking events, prominent websites, and in multiple notable cookbooks. Sam has also worked with a number of notable brands such as Impossible Foods, Bowflex, Fairmont Hotels, Breville Canada, Beyond Meat, and more.
For business inquiries, please email Adam (IDTLC Inc., Director of Business and Operations).
TV:
Be sure to check out Sam's YouTube channel.
RADIO:
CBC Fresh Air with Nana Aba Duncan
CBC All in a Day with Alan Neal
Newstalk 1010 - Let's Eat with Zane Caplansky
CBC The Homestretch
Awards:
- The 2024 Veggie Award Winner: Best Vegan Cookbook
- 2022 Taste Canada Awards (Silver) Best cookbook in Canada for Fast Easy Cheap Vegan
- 2021 IVFF Cookbook Winners: Fast Easy Cheap Vegan (3rd Place)
- Winner of "Star of the Show" with Food Network’s celebrity Chef Michael Smith.
- Top Vegan Blog on World of Vegan
- Best Vegan Cookbooks on BookRiot
- 10 Best Vegan Cookbooks on wiki.ezvid.com
- Nominated for NOW Toronto Readers Choice Awards for Best Blogger 2016
Magazines & Newspapers:
- St. Albert Gazette
- HuffPost
- The Toronto Star
- Eat North
- Impact Magazine
- Canadian Vegan Magazine (Cover)
- The Toronto Star
- Chatelaine
- Salon
- The Globe and Mail
- Yahoo! News
- Vegan Food & Living
- VegNews
- TOI Magazine
- Healthy Juicing Magazine
- Raw Food Magazine
- IMPACT Magazine
- VegNews
- VegNews
- IMPACT Magazine
- Runners World
Other publications:
- Recipes donated to Eat For the Planet Cookbook published by Harry N. Abrams
- Recipe donated to The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook published by Appetite by Random House
- Recipe donated to Taste for Life cookbook published by ABC Books - Harper Collins Australia
Notable Sites:
- PlayJunkie
- Her Campus
- Food Network
- Food Network
- Porch.com
- Dr. Oz The Good Life
- Dr. Axe
- Healthline
- CBC
- Buzzfeed
- Eat This, Not That
- Prevention
- CountryLiving
- Live Kindly
- GoodHousekeeping.com
- GoodHousekeeping.co.uk
- FitnessMagazine.com
- Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
- WomansDay
- Eluxe Magazine
- Everyday Monkey
- Bored Panda
Want to send me your vegan product to test out?
My mailing address is below. Please note that if I love a product, I’m likely to share it with my audience, but acceptance of your gift does not guarantee that I will use it in a post or social share.
Sam Turnbull
P.O. Box 75346
1015 Lakeshore Blvd E
Toronto, ON, Canada
M4M 1B0
For business inquiries, please email Adam (IDTLC Inc., Director of Business and Operations).