Thanks to my mother and grandmothers, I learned to enjoy cooking and baking at a young age, while living in the Midwest. Later in life, I honed my skills and love for all things in the kitchen while serving as editor of a trade magazine covering food, kitchenware and the specialty coffee industries. As editor, I was lucky enough travel the world visiting manufacturers to learn the story behind making foods from Parmesan cheese, Caribbean hot sauces, German chocolates and Brazilian Coffee, to French cookware, Italian cutlery, and English pottery. I grew to love learning about the place from where a food tradition comes, the story behind a product. Further culinary inspiration came from the countless lunches, cocktail hours and train rides chatting with people like with Jennifer Paterson of the Two Fat Ladies, Julia Child, Emeril, Wolfgang Puck, and even Prince Charles at his organic farm, Highgrove.

These days I continue to live the tradition of cooking and baking with my husband and our four children while living here in Northern California. I chronicle my successes and missteps in the kitchen on Family Eats, where I hope to inspire readers to “Reconnect with the food we eat and the family we love.”

~ Laura Everage, Family Eats