Pinky Cole
Appearances
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Hello to all my fellow sluts in the audience.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
When you come into the doors of Slutty Vegan, the first thing that you're going to hear is, we got a slut in the building! Ha ha ha ha ha!
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Okay, what are we making? Okay, so we are making the Hollywood hooker. Okay. And the secret to this is, like, you just put your mayonnaise on the side, and you have to, like, gooey it with mayonnaise.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
It's delicious. People love that sandwich. They go crazy over it.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
This is Fun Food. This is the brand where every single time somebody comes through the door, they want to take pictures.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Fun, sexy, vegan. Because historically, vegan has always been looked at as boring, very green, it's a salad. And I'm like, I want to debunk that myth. I want to add some razzle-dazzle to vegan food. Because people identify to cool. Yeah. And if I can make it cool, then I can teach you about the planet. Then I can teach you why it's good for you.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Then I can teach you why you need to do this because this is the wave.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
We do because the minute people hear climate change, they like check out. The average person in America is not thinking about climate change. So I think that the messaging and how we as a people navigate through this is make it relatable for people to understand. If that's what it takes to get there, if we can get to the finish line, then again, it's a win for everybody.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
70%. A lot of people come up to me and say, hey, Pinky, if it wasn't for you, I never would have even knew what vegan food was. People don't even realize you eat vegan food every day. Most of your sides are vegan, right? What we do is we hold out the hand, we grab your hand, and we bring you into this community. And then you look up and you don't even realize, like, oh, I'm vegan.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
And oh, I love this movement. And then we can begin to start having those conversations. And I feel like it is my responsibility as a vegan restaurateur in this hospitality space and a space where it's still this, you know, people are still trying to figure it out. It is my responsibility to be that change agent in this space.