Jenné Claiborne’s holiday table looks a lot like the ones she remembers enjoying while growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia—piles of greens, stuffing, sweet potatoes, candied yams, pies, rolls, gravy, and macaroni and cheese. The only difference is, unlike her nana’s traditional recipes that graced the table each year, Jenné’s are 100% vegan.
Jenné, who says she didn’t have her first bite of salad until she was 17 years old, took up a plant-based diet in 2011, while she was living in New York City taking acting classes and waiting tables at a vegan restaurant. It didn’t take long before she noticed how the change in diet had vastly improved her health both mentally and physically, inside and out. “Everything clicked at that point,” she says. And she…
