Mel Rogers is a musician and a vegan chef. A lifelong vegetarian, she started honing her culinary skills touring the festival circuit, cooking in tour busses and on camp fires. She became a vegan after joining a vegan a festival co-op, The Umbrella Fair, where it became her job to develop the cafe. A move to Bristol and a desire to promote vegan activism through food led to her founding Mel’s Kindness Kitchen in 2015. She now teaches classes all over the country and has many invites from vegan fairs for her popular demos.