Sara Bir: Contributing Writer for Simply Recipes

Business: Sara Bir

Location: Ohio

Education: AOS in Culinary Arts, The Culinary Institute of America

Expertise: Vegan and vegetarian cuisine, Baking, Classic American cooking, Fruits, Foraging, Preservation (canning, fermentation)

A chef, culinary educator, and author of two cookbooks, Tasting Ohio and The Fruit Forager's Companion. The latter won a 2019 IACP Cookbook Award
Writing has been featured in Best Food Writing, Saveur, Lucky Peach, Ohio Magazine, and many other publications.

Experience

Sara began contributing to Simply Recipes in 2018. She's been writing since 2000, teaching cooking classes since 2008, and giving foraging presentations since 2015. Sara's cookbooks include Tasting Ohio, The Fruit Forager's Companion, and the forthcoming The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook. The Fruit Forager's Companion won a 2019 IACP Cookbook Award. She was the founding food editor for the pop culture Pasta Magazine, where she assigned, edited, and posted articles.

Best piece of cooking advice: "Use your hands as much as possible."

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