As a creative person, I feel deeply influenced by Kanye West. In a 2007 interview with Culinate, when asked what I was up to I explained: “I’m most excited about generating ways to creatively use pop culture and mass media to address food-justice issues. I half-jokingly tell people that I am striving to be the Kanye West of the food-justice movement, because I think that he brilliantly funnels progressive ideas through his art.” And he does.
In June, I was invited to come to Chicago and attend a benefit concert for the Kanye West Foundation, where they gave away 200 copies of Vegan Soul Kitchen. Before the concert I got to meet ‘Ye and tell him how much he inspires me.
