Miyoko Schinner, the chef and entrepreneur who helped define the modern vegan cheese movement, has confirmed that she failed to win back Miyoko’s Creamery, the company she founded in 2014 and was pushed out of two years ago.
“I didn’t get it. The company that bears my name went to someone else with a higher bid,” she wrote in a candid LinkedIn post.
Schinner said the liquidator overseeing the brand’s sale had a fiduciary duty to accept the highest offer, and hers wasn’t it. Her comments follow a whirlwind 48-hour campaign to assemble a rescue bid for the Sonoma County-based company, which entered liquidation earlier this fall.
“There simply wasn’t enough time,” she wrote, noting that more than 1,600 people had…