M.L. Obermaier

ML Obermaier, M.Ed., was raised in New Mexico most of her life, although she has also lived in California and Missouri. New Mexico was a wonderful place to be with it's rich culture. During her youth, the family owned several businesses, one which was a small restaurant in Old Town. Every year during Lent many of the employees at the restaurant would make an onion and cheese taco, something that ML had created, due to the fact that on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday Catholics abstain from eating meat. Until ML moved to Northern California and took a vegetarian cooking class, she had never met another vegetarian.

Years later she and her five children have created lots of healthy vegan and vegetarian recipes. She now also has a vegetarian daughter-in-law that helps her with cooking ideas.

Although ML had been a photographer in college and for a small local newspaper, her camera had long ago bit the dust. Her two younger daughters knew that she would love to make a cookbook and as soon as she replaced her broken camera in 2013, both her younger daughters insisted they all start the cookbook, hence Cool Kids Cook Everyday Gourmet was created.

In 2018 ML opened a plant-based restaurant focused on educational.