Chloe Wilde and Lauren Toyota met in 2013 on a reality show, one was a contestant and one was the host of the show. Tune in to hear the story. As one of Canada's most recognizable media voices, Lauren Toyota has made a name for herself as an inspirational, influential voice of a generation. With armies of social audiences hanging on her every word, Lauren is now living the dream as her very own modern day media outlet having seamlessly transitioned from close to 10 years as a national television host to independent, self-made content producer for more than 8 successful social channels.After a successful decade on national television, running her own business, and authoring a cookbook, Lauren has conquered it all and is truly living her dream. She attributes focus and visualization, hard work ethic and perseverance, as well as integrity and a positive attitude to getting her where she is today. The history of hot for food is short and sweet. It launched as a blog in February 2014 and earned over 10,000 visitors within the first week!On hot for food, Lauren is cooking up vegan love and bringing the increasingly popular lifestyle to food fans across the globe. Her knack for creating vegan versions of popular comfort foods like mac and cheese, burgers, caesar salad, and even cheesecake is helping to catapult the vegan lifestyle into the mainstream and proving that plant based diets are far from boring.Every Wednesday, Lauren has a show where she shares gourmet vegan comfort food recipes on the YouTube channel that now boasts over 400,000 subscribers and over 26 million channel views!Follow along with Lauren on social media: @hotforfood