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Healthy with a Side of Happy: Book Talk with Sabrina Rudin

May 27, 2026

12 to 1 p.m. | Mertz Library

A blue book cover that reads "Healthy with a Side of Happy"Creator, entrepreneur, and owner of organic, vegetarian café Spring Café Aspen, Sabrina Rudin grew up believing “food is medicine”—a philosophy that has guided her both personally and professionally. Since opening her business in 2013 and becoming a mom in 2016, she’s become a passionate advocate for raising awareness about toxins in our food and educating families on how to cook, eat, and live more sustainably.

Join Sabrina as she introduces her debut cookbook, Healthy with a Side of Happy: 100 Plant-Based Recipes to Feed Your Family—a blend of clean-living guidance, non-toxic kitchen tips, and nourishing recipes designed to satisfy all ages, from toddlers discovering new flavors to teens with big appetites and adults juggling busy schedules.

Copies of her book will be available for purchase and signing.

After the talk, visit NYBG’s Edible Academy at 2 p.m. for a hands-on cooking demonstration, where Sabrina will prepare one of her favorite plant-based recipes.

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About the Speaker

Sabrina Rudin is a creator and entrepreneur in the food and wellness space, and the founder and owner of Spring Café Aspen, an organic, vegetarian restaurant with locations in Aspen and New York City. While living in Aspen as a snowboard instructor, she realized the town lacked a healthy café with organic, nourishing, and vegetarian options and set out to solve the problem herself. The menu was inspired by the vegetarian restaurants of her childhood, and by her mother who was a pioneer in the natural foods and juicing movement, having studied under Anne Wigmor and at the Kushi Institute.

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