Sally Schneider

Sally Schneider is a cookbook author, food writer and teacher. She recently launched the improvised life, a lifestyle blog, and also writes the “Home Cooking” column on Atlantic’s Food Blog. She is a regular contributor to “The Splendid Table” on National Public Radio and writes a syndicated newspaper column called “The Improvisational Cook” for Universal Press Syndicate.

She is the author of the best-selling cookbooks, The Improvisational Cook and A New Way to Cook. She has won numerous awards including four James Beard awards for her books and magazine writing.

Sally has written for publications such as The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Saveur, Food & Wine, Self and Connoisseur and has contributed to numerous books including The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, The Collected Traveler and America's Best Recipes. As a contributing editor to Food & Wine magazine, for many years she wrote a popular monthly column called “Well-Being.”

She has appeared frequently on television shows, including Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, Multo Mario and Real Simple.

Sally has worked as a journalist, editor, teacher, stylist, lecturer, restaurant chef and small-space consultant, and once wrangled 600 live snails for the photographer Irving Penn. Her varied work has been the laboratory for the themes she writes and lectures about: improvising as an essential operating principle; cultivating resourcefulness and your “inner artist”; design, style, food — anything — that is cost effective, resourceful, and clearly outside the box.

She lives in New York City. Her website is www.sallyschneider.net; her blog is  www.theimprovisedlife.com; and her Atlantic column can be found at http://food.theatlantic.com/home-cooking/.