Linda Watson, Cookbook Writer and Food Blogger

Name: Linda Watson

Occupation: Food Evangelist: cookbook writer, food photographer, blogger, speaker, and food consultant

Place of Residence: Raleigh, North Carolina

Background and Personal History: Linda started the Cook for Good project after becoming obsessed with the national Food Stamp Challenge: living on a dollar a meal per person for a week. Her three-week experiment became a lifestyle, the Cook for Good website, the book Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet – All on $5 a Day or Less, and the Wildly Good Cook videos. Her story took a romantic turn when she wrote the spoof Fifty Weeks of Green: Romance & Recipes, in which a city gal falls in love with a farmer and learns to cook. She teaches cooking classes, gives talks, and consults with event planners across the country.

Linda and her husband Bruce (the Taster) live in Raleigh, North Carolina. You can find her at a local farmers market nearly every Saturday. At home, she’s slowly converting their yard to an edible forest garden, with hazelnuts, bush cherries, and more, as well as annual vegetables and plenty of oddly gorgeous plants.