Coco Morante: Contributing Writer for Simply Recipes

Location: Portland, Oregon

Expertise: Kitchen gadgets: Instant Pot, air fryer

Author of five cookbooks on Instant Pot cooking, including a #1 bestselling title on Amazon.
An industry expert on Instant Pot cooking.
Contributed to multiple print and online publications, including Simply Recipes, People Magazine, Epicurious, Taste Magazine, The Kitchn, Edible Silicon Valley, J.Weekly, Your Teen Magazine, Austin360

Experience

Coco started a food blog in 2011, and soon after that began managing social media and developing recipes for Garlic Gold®, an organic foods company. She began developing recipes professionally for The Kitchn in 2014, joined Simply Recipes as a contributor in 2016, and published her first cookbook, The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook, with Ten Speed Press in 2017. Coco has written five cookbooks in total, with a new project in the works presently.

Cookbooks: The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook, The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook, The Ultimate Instant Pot Healthy Cookbook, The Essential Diabetes Instant Pot Cookbook, and The Essential Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook

Most-beloved cooking tool: "My hodgepodge "set" of knives. Good knife skills and decent knives make cooking so much easier and more enjoyable."

About Simply Recipes

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