"Aaron Beener, a co-owner of Seasoned Vegan, Harlem’s first full-service vegan restaurant. He has been vegan for the last two decades, after his mother, Brenda Beener, the restaurant’s co-owner and executive chef, switched their family to a plant-based diet to accommodate her husband’s extended juice fast. The mother-son duo, along with a third partner, Pascal Rawls-Philippe, opened the soul-food restaurant in order to 'show people that it’s not outside our culture to be plant-based,' Aaron says." - Amirah Mercer
