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About
Instagram star, online content creator, social media personality, foodie, food enthusiast, author, chef, and cookbook writer. Her posts are all about creative comfort foods that are plant-based to her 430,000 followers. Her real name is Elly Smart.
Before fame
Before she became a vegan chef, she got her law degree from Cardiff University. Having decided that a career in the court system wasn't for her, she decided to work in a friend's vegan donut bakeshop.
Trivia
Her first cookbook is called "Elly's Plate-Plant Based Comfort Food Made Easy." It features 75 main course dishes that are completely meat-free, including her famous "pulled-pork noodles" which are made with oyster mushrooms instead of pork.
Family life
She got engaged in 2023 to her fiance while in Hout Bay, which is a beach in Cape Town, South Africa. In a TikTok video, she said it was the best moment of her life.
Associated with
Before she started producing her own content on social media in 2023, she worked with chef Gaz Oakley as a food economist on his YouTube channel.
