Nicknamed by her older brother before she could walk and, a few moons later, still called “Binky" for better or for worse, Beth "Binky" Neels loves to cook. Any kind of cooking! From baking to canning to back yard parties, you name it! She styled her blog a Carnival because the name reflects an appropriate conglomeration of treats. Beth received her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in ornamental horticulture and she uses her knowledge of plants to grow a plethora of great fruits and veg...
Dec 12, 2018•26 min
Tanya Harris is an attorney who started her food blog, My Forking Life, as a hobby in 2016. Her goal is to provide her readers with quick and easy meals that are full of flavor. She wants everyone, even busy people, to be able to cook more often at home. Tanya posts a lot of gadget recipes, pressure cooker and air fryer recipes, because these have helped her get dinner on the table quickly. She has increased her blog traffic to over 100,000 page views in just a few months by providing her reader...
Dec 05, 2018•26 min
Dawn Coombs is a girl that hearts food, aka the blogger behind Girl Heart Food. There’s always something delicious cooking in her home because she and her husband love to cook and eat. As soon as one meal is over, Dawn is thinking about what the next meal will be. The philosophy behind her blog is simple– ‘Eat Well. Cook with Love. Make your Belly Happy.’ Most of the recipes you’ll find on Girl Heart Food are healthy, while others are indulgent (because she LOVES cheese). But the main thing is t...
Nov 28, 2018•27 min
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Michelle Lettrich stumbled across a food blog for the first time in February of 2007. Living at a distance from friends and family and feeling cabin fever that winter, starting a blog of her own seemed like a perfect outlet for combining her love of baking and her love of writing. Before she became a full-time blogger, Michelle worked as a marketing analyst. Michelle is entirely self-taught when it comes to the kitchen, learning as she goes through cookbooks, m...
Nov 21, 2018•26 min
Kankana Saxena 's craving for food started while she was traveling a lot for her job and so, at a much later stage in life than most bloggers. Visiting those many different places, meeting new people, eating together with them and sharing stories worked some kind of magic on her appetite. Eventually, she surprised herself and her family when she realized that cooking was the stress-buster she was looking for! Kankana's Playful Cooking blog came into existence eight years ago. She had moved to US...
Nov 14, 2018•29 min
Sonja Overhiser is a dreamer and a doer, and author of the cookbook Pretty Simple Cooking, named one of the “best vegetarian cookbooks” by Epicurious. A professional writer and recipe developer, her vegetable forward recipes are inspired by seasonal produce and adventures traveling the globe everywhere from Mexico to the Mediterranean. Fueled by her passion for connecting people with recipes and information on how to learn to cook, she and her husband Alex founded the popular food blog A Couple ...
Nov 07, 2018•31 min
Katie Webster is a free-lance recipe developer, food photographer and blogger at Healthy Seasonal Recipes, where she specializes in healthy, locally sourced cuisine. She is a culinary school graduate, studied art and photography at Skidmore College and is a contributing editor at EatingWell Magazine. Katie is also the author and photographer of the cookbook Maple, 100 Sweet and Savory Recipes Featuring Pure Maple Syrup, by Quirk Books. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sassy daughter...
Oct 31, 2018•29 min
Dr. Karen S Lee's journey to healthy cooking, eating and living began with the birth of her first child. As a mom, Dr. Lee found herself paying much closer attention to the foods she prepared and fed to her family, as well as the many ways her lifestyle was affecting her family's health. Years of positive experiences with her chiropractor and the tangible benefits of those treatments led Dr. Lee to enter the field herself to make a difference in the health and happiness of others. As a holistic ...
Oct 24, 2018•29 min
Elaine Benoit started blogging in the summer of 2015, shortly before she turned 53 years old. (It's never too late too succeed!) She is a firm believer in marching to the beat of her own drum and letting life be what it will be. Elaine launched the Dishing with Delishes podcast in the fall of 2017 to help her fellow food bloggers feel a sense of community and grow their businesses. The podcast features successful food bloggers and business people with expertise relevant to food and lifestyle blo...
Oct 17, 2018•29 min
Katie Trant is a university-trained nutritionist with a Bachelor of Science in Food, Nutrition, and Health and Master of Science in Nutrition. She's passionate about real food, a champion of body positivity and intuitive eating, and a meal-planning, lunch-packing whiz. Hey Nutrition Lady is where Katie leans in on her science background and uses critical thinking to help sift through the enormous amount of misinformation and pseudoscience when it comes to nutrition. Her mission is to help people...
Oct 10, 2018•31 min
Annie Chesson loves one pot meals, photography, healthy food that tastes unhealthy, Sunday mornings, jeans and t-shirts, and her German Shepherd/Lab, Boone. In love with Fall and Christmas she is in constant bliss from mid September to December 26th. Annie says she could spend all day watching Ree Drummond and The Kitchen rather than doing anything remotely productive. She is (maybe more than) slightly addicted to cooking. Her brain is constantly thinking of new recipes, how to lighten up existi...
Oct 03, 2018•25 min
Rizwan Asad is a self-taught baker, expert eater, and sometimes writer currently living in Toronto, Canada. You’ll relate to him if you value a good home cooked meal. For him, the kitchen is a place for warm memories, a place to make new stories. Riz has been a student of many things and a resident of many places. Ask him where he’s from to hear him weave a story of a mischievous childhood, delectable food, and exotic places. All you really need to know is that he studied at Hogwarts. No, seriou...
Sep 26, 2018•22 min
Natasha Bull grew up in a home where her Czech mom cooked everything from scratch. She developed a keen interest in cooking by watching her mom, but strangely enough, that same childhood experience did not rub off on her younger sister. Natasha picked up enough tips and tricks from her mom that she felt prepared to feed herself after moving out on her own when she finished university. Other domestic tasks? Not so much. In the years since, Natasha has been honing her cooking and recipe developmen...
Sep 19, 2018•31 min
Betty Davies's blog, Slow the Cook Down, is about taking life down a notch—stopping to enjoy the smell wafting from the roast chicken you just pulled from the oven. Here, there’s no reason to hurry or stress; dinner will get done and it will be delicious! Instead, pour a glass of wine and settle in to try something new. Raised in a traditional English home, Betty grew up with a weekly Sunday lunch of roasted meat and potatoes and all the trimmings. It was a time when the family sat down together...
Sep 12, 2018•31 min
Amanda Batcher firmly believes life is all about balance: eat a salad, but enjoy some bacon along with it! A lifelong Midwest resident, she knows down-home, comfort food. Her recipes usually include a touch of decadence, and she is fond of incorporating bourbon or beer in her recipes as well! When she’s not in the kitchen, you’ll find Amanda behind a camera, reading, and spending quality time with her husband and two children.
Sep 05, 2018•27 min
Sarah Newman's wide variety of experiences - from building and selling her own food blog to project management to copywriting to digital marketing - all set the stage for her to now be the business manager for the successful, healthy living site Root + Revel . Sarah's newest passion project, Radically Radiant Life , is a podcast and community dedicated to supporting women in living their most authentic lives through self love and embracing their unique gifts. Sarah's favorite things include the ...
Aug 29, 2018•30 min
Shadi HasanzadeNemati is a food writer, photographer and recipe developer who has an endless love for good food and sharing it with everyone. Through cooking and sharing recipes, Shadi tries to cherish the rich history of her culture's cuisine and memories she made before immigrating to the US. Being a former English teacher and IT engineer, Shadi always had a strong passion for cooking and baking from a very young age and used to spend a lot of time in the Kitchen with her mother as she worked ...
Aug 22, 2018•27 min
Casey Markee believes that good SEO rankings are all about one word: content. Through his company Media Wyse , Casey helps food bloggers and site owners optimize content and find the best sites to strengthen backlink profiles. Casey helps generate blog content that attracts substantial traffic, as demonstrated by his dozens of link bait and infographic content pieces ranking at the top of Google organic search results in many different niches. Casey's main specialty is conducting site audits, wi...
Aug 15, 2018•57 min
Jas Brechtl is a Bosnian expat who has been living in Northern Indiana since the summer of 1998, following a six-year exile in Germany. She is writer, cook, photographer, and an avid cheesecake lover. Jas grew up in a traditional European family, the kind of family that sits together for big weekend lunches. Those lunches always began with some kind of soup. It isn’t a big lunch unless you begin it with a spoon. Based on her blog now, you’d never know that as a child Jas barely ate. Food didn’t ...
Aug 08, 2018•26 min
Gloria Duggan comes from a Ukrainian background, where the women of the house spent many hours cooking to feed their families. Growing up in a large family, get-togethers meant even more food. And of course all of it was homemade!! Everyone had her specialty dish and the combination of those dishes made yummy meals. Constantly having such wonderful foods to eat fueled Gloria's enthusiasm for cooking and today she takes pleasure in cooking wonderful, pleasing meals for family and friends. Over ti...
Aug 01, 2018•30 min
Brian Jones is from Birmingham, England. In 2008, he and his wife moved to rural Hungary with designs of growing food, brewing wine and living the good life. Krumpli is just one manifestation of that journey. After becoming disillusioned with commercial photography, Brian launched Krumpli in 2015 as a way to combine two passions: food and taking pictures. Brian's site is the representation of his love of food from around the globe, largely grown on his own two and a half acres. Dedicated to food...
Jul 25, 2018•24 min
Sarah Trenalone created Champagne Tastes as a resource for anyone wants to use/eat fewer processed foods, explore fermentation, and/or eat outdoors. Her recipes support a healthier, greener, more homegrown lifestyle. Expect to see lots of vegetables and seafood, along with a little bourbon. Champagne Tastes recently expanded from a recipes-only site to include tutorials on bourbon, fermentation, glamping (glamour camping), and even hiking the Grand Canyon. Some of Sarah's most popular guides inc...
Jul 18, 2018•26 min
Erin Parker has been blogging since May of 2011. Being in the kitchen makes her so happy that she turns to it whenever she finds herself stressed. Erin believes that from-scratch recipes are the best kind of recipes and strives to develop dishes that are friendly to folks who don’t have all day to spend in the kitchen but who also don’t mind taking the time to make a delicious, homemade meal. A few of Erin's favorite things: Fresh, seasonal ingredients because they simply taste better. Not only ...
Jul 11, 2018•30 min
Years of juggling a full-time job, commuting, kiddos, and caring for her disabled mother taught Sarah Cook some Jedi-like multi-tasking skills. She started blogging in 2010 under the name Frugal by Choice, Cheap by Necessity to share her love of healthy cooking, gardening, and DIY with the masses. Over the years Sarah has made it her mission to help busy people and families find room in their lives for cooking real food. Sarah believes in meeting people where they are and encouraging baby steps ...
Jul 05, 2018•26 min
Kate Hackworthy founded her website, Veggie Desserts, as a place to share recipes for desserts created with vegetables (Hello, Kale and Apple Cake!). Her work quickly gained international press attention and a year after she started, she began winning awards. This led to a monthly national magazine column and in 2017 she released her debut cookbook, Veggie Desserts and Cakes . The blog has since branched out to include vegetarian and vegan meals. Kate was born in Canada and moved to the UK in he...
Jun 28, 2018•25 min
Kimberly and Johnathan Vargo met in 2001 while working at a restaurant in Northwest Arkansas. From day one, the couple dreamed about a future together working with food. They married in August 2002 and within a few years they both left the food service industry. In 2009, the family moved to Miami and for the next nine years, lived in various locations throughout Florida. In November 2015, Kim started Berly’s Kitchen as a backup plan. She and John were both facing health issues and wanted to have...
Jun 21, 2018•32 min
Husband and wife, Chris and Nicky Corbishley founded popular food blog Kitchen Sanctuary and business blogger resource Living the Blog to share with others their love of food and their success in business. Nicky After Nicky Corbishley took her college degree in computer science, she went straight into the corporate world, where she spent the next 14 years, most recently as a disaster recovery manager in the IT department of a pharma company. During that time, she met Chris (at work), they dated,...
Jun 14, 2018•34 min
Tina Dawson is the creator behind the newly-vegan-food-blog, Love Is in My Tummy: a collection of recipes, visual storytelling and memories for those who desire unique inspiration in the kitchen ( think Baked Churro Eclairs, Fried Gingerbread Cookies, Herbal Chocolate Tea, Truffle Lentil Curry) . Her community views food as more than just sustenance; it's a bridge that connects civilizations and cultures throughout time and and it shapes all life. Tina was born and raised in a close-knit Indo-Bu...
Jun 07, 2018•30 min
Zainab Storms is a baker, home chef, neuroscientist, world traveler, and mom. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Zainab didn’t grow up baking with her mother or grandmother. In fact, she had never baked before 2012 when she decided to bake a heart-shaped cake for her then-fiancé on Valentine’s Day. (Romantic right?) She says, "It was an organized disaster!" For Zainab, baking began as a grad-school hobby, a way to de-stress and express her creativity while earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She enjoy...
May 31, 2018•27 min
Nora Schlesinger life shifted drastically after a series of digestive ailments forced her to completely change the way she cooks and eats. Eliminating staples foods like gluten (wheat), dairy, processed foods, and refined sugars was the easy part. The hard part was figuring out what was still on the menu, particularly when it came to dessert. Nora packs a major sweet tooth and was not willing to give up her beloved treats entirely. She searched the internet for recipes and tips, but since her di...
May 24, 2018•36 min
