[1][4] At the age of 14, Vora began to teach herself how to cook by watching chefs such as the Ina Garten and Alton Brown on the Food Network,[2] spending time in the cookbook section of bookstores,[4] and learning from her mother, who created Indian vegetarian cuisine.
[4] Ultimately, she left her career as a lawyer in 2016 in order to focus fully on being a vegan food blogger, which was "inspired by documentaries about factory farming.
[2][4] Vora does credit law school with the writing, research, and analytical skills needed for her current work saying that when she "was developing a chocolate chip recipe, I did a mountain of research on ingredient ratios in non-vegan chocolate chip cookies, the percentage of butter, the percentage of fat, the percentage of eggs, so that I could come up with a recipe that tastes just as delicious and is just as chewy and has crispy edges like a regular chocolate chip cookie.
I bring this super analytical lens that I think comes from having that background as a law student and as a lawyer.”[2] In 2024, Gotham named her cooking channel, Rainbow Plant Life one of the "8 Vegetarian and Vegan Youtube Channels That Make Plant-Based Cooking Easy.
[12] Kristin Montemarano states in Food & Wine that it is "filled with...essential flavor-building steps you should always be taking,"[13] while Washington Post Food and Dining Editor Joe Yonan suggests that it demonstrates how a Plant-based diet "is a distinct cuisine with its own principles and strategies.