Bios
Cate O’Malley (Editor) - Bio
In addition to writing for the various Well Fed sites, I combined my cookbook obsession and my love for the written word to form my own site, Sweetnicks. My site’s name comes from my 5-year-old son, Nicholas, who loves to help me in the kitchen almost as much as he loves Dora, Spiderman and his girlfriend.
Casey Kelly Barton - Bio
Casey Kelly Barton gardens, keeps chickens and tries to live green in Austin, Texas. In addition to writing for the Well Fed Network, she blogs and podcasts at Redneck Mother.
Tracy DeBlois - Bio
Tracy DeBlois loves to eat, cook, and read and write about food. Although not currently a food service professional, she worked for a catering company while in college, selling services, coordinating events, and taking part in the cooking. She has helped cook for groups from five to five thousand, serving everything from spit roasted whole pig to bar-b-que sandwiches. She now lives with her husband and four children a short ferry ride from Seattle, WA. Tracy maintains her own blog at The Modern Apron, where she shares her food and cooking experiences. She has an impressive (and, to her husband’s dismay, ever-growing) cookbook collection, a passion for food magazines that verges on obsessive, and a growing interest in the food landscape in America and its impact on society. Tracy can usually be found in the kitchen or, when waiting for something in the oven, in front of the fire with a book and a glass of wine.
Stacy Hunt - Bio
Stacy started her professional career as a chef and currently works as a writer, communications and business consultant to the sustainable and green building industry. Stacy’s expertise in natural resource conservation and food collide at Grower’s and Grocers to focus on sustainable, natural living.
Faith Kramer - Bio
Faith Kramer finds herself reading about food sometimes even more often than cooking it. “After all,” she says “it’s hard to grill chicken in bed.” In addition to the many American food magazines she reads, Faith also enjoys “translating” into American some of the best food magazines of England and Australia. She’s been even known to try recipes from Spanish, Mexican and French food magazines. The French ones are particularly challenging since she doesn’t know any French. Good thing the language of food is universal.
When she is not reading about cooking food, she is writing about it in her blog, Blog Appetit, and as a contributor to other Well Fed Network sites, including Sugar Savvy.
Abbey Lile-Taylor - Bio
Quite green to the Green Movement, Abbey is distressed by what she has discovered, but delighted in how she has learned to cook, garden, shop, and live in a new way. When she’s not absorbed in her fascination for Green Living, you can find her chatting away on her personal blog, indulge*laugh*create, taking nature photographs, reading, stitching up her next crafty project, or heading out to the local flea market. She currently lives on the central coast of California with her geeky, but adorable, husband, their dog, Molly, and three out of control cats.
Madeline Miller - Bio
I was a water lawyer in a former life (okay, maybe it was just a couple years ago). Through that job, I was able to travel up and down the great State of California and meet not only with the people who run the state’s water system, but also with the farmers who used the water provided. I gained a great respect for the amount of work and devotion required to get produce from the field to the grocery store.
Oh, and I also love to write, so here I am in the blogosphere, writing away about anything and everything that inspires me, including writing for another Well Fed Network blog, Paper Palate, and my own personal blog, Everything Rachael Ray.
Erin and Al Rosas - Bio
Al and Erin Rosas raise all grass fed beef on their certified organic cattle farm located in Marion County, Florida. The Rosas also own and operate a specialty and organic food store.
Erin Rosas is a medical research specialist with research concentrated in the area of the cellular and physiological reaction to growth hormones and chemicals in humans. She is a Board Member of The Sturge-Weber Foundation and Medical Research Director of The KT Foundation.
The Rosas’ consult nationally as organic industry specialists and are the authors of Pragmatic Organics and The 80% Solution.
The Rosas live and work in Florida with their children. They also publish a monthly e-magazine on eating pragmatic organically, The Organic Chef Monthly, and appear regularly at organic trade shows, seminars and on radio educating families about the benefits or organic and sustainable living.
Erin Rosas was awarded the Organic Style Magazine and Stonyfield Farms Woman of the Year. Al Rosas won the Walt Drigger’s Environmentalist of the Year, Cordon D’Or Culinary Entrepreneur of the Year and Minority Business of the Year
Sandy Smith
Although I’ve been a full-time freelance writer and editor for almost fifteen years, I’ve been eating and cooking for quite a bit longer than that. I enjoy artisanal baking, and I work with publishers to develop and test recipes as a technical editor for cookbooks. I also write regularly on culinary and other topics for various print and online media. Here on the Well Fed Network, I write for Kids Cuisine, Just Baking, Paper Palate, Sugar Savvy, and Growers and Grocers. Elsewhere, I write the LocalFoodBlog.com, on local and sustainable foods.
I love every aspect of food—from growing herbs to grocery shopping (really!) to cooking, baking, and writing about obscure Colonial dishes and cave-aged farmhouse cheeses. I grew up in a home where the preparing and sharing of food was an expression of love, and the kitchen and dining rooms are still the “living rooms” in our family. I’m deeply grateful for the abundance of excellent food we have so readily available to us in the United States, so I try to be a good steward of that resource, and my husband and I are teaching our kids to do the same. At our family’s table, we eat as seasonally, and enjoyably, as possible.
