Valerie Libutti

Valerie Libutti is an American vegan food blogger known for her Vegan Travel Eats handle on various platforms. She is particularly popular on Instagram where she has more than 90,000 followers. From Florida but currently based in Denver, she also contributes recipes to the hugely popular Best of Vegan brand and is a vocal advocate of HAES (Health at Every Size). She is also a firm anti-racist and against pseudoscience.

Libutti first became vegetarian when she was 16 years old, after witnessing how farm animals were treated on a trip to Israel. She went back to meat-eating whilst at college, but went fully vegan after watching hard-hitting documentaries about animal cruelty. Her husband followed suit, but as the pair were both foodies who loved eating out, they didn’t want to have to give all of those things up because they no longer wanted to consume animal produce.

Inspired, Libutti began researching restaurants and recipes and realised that there was a wonderfully diverse and exciting vegan food scene happening all over the world. She began her Vegan Travel Eats blog as a way of sharing her discoveries with others and quickly found a large and appreciative audience. In 2017, she went a step further and began creating recipes of her own, and this led to her becoming a Best of Vegan contributor in 2020.