IVY MANNING
Food Writer, Cookbook Author, and Cooking Instructor
Ivy Manning is a Portland, Oregon-based freelance food and travel writer, food stylist, and author of The Farm to Table Cookbook: The Art of Eating Locally. Her work has been featured in Cooking Light, Sunset Magazine, Fine Cooking, Edible Portland, Bon Appétit and on culinate.com. Additionally, Manning is a regular contributor to the Oregonian FoodDay section with her column, Vegetarian Flavors.
Her most recent book, The Adaptable Feast: Satisfying Meals for the Vegetarians, Vegans and Omnivores At Your Table (Sasquatch Books, 2009) guides readers through the uncharted territory of cooking for mixed diet families. Manning's book shows busy home cooks how to make delicious single meals that feed everyone in the family, from staunch meat and potatoes types to strict vegans, without dirtying every dish in the kitchen.
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Manning attended Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon, followed by an externship at the award-winning Paley's Place restaurant and stints at some of Portland's best restaurants and stages in Italy and Thailand. Manning has been cooking, writing, and teaching in Portland ever since.
Manning travels the globe studying the cuisines of every country she visits, including cooking trips to Thailand, Italy, France, Mexico, and the South Pacific. When her bags aren't packed, she is writing, blogging (ivysfeast.blogspot.com), cooking for her vegetarian husband Gregor (the photographer of her books), and petting her retired greyhound, Mini. Download Ivy Manning's CV (468KB PDF)
Links and Friends
CulinateA national webzine (based in Portland) that discusses food, our food systems and cooking. Progressive, green and delicious.
Dining and WineAn RSS feed that keeps me posted about what the rest of the world is eating, and drinking.
Donna Hay MagazineMore food porn, Donna is the inventor of the ultra modern "white on white" food styling. Use your judgment on the recipes.
Gregor TorrencePhotographer for The Farm to Table Cookbook and my husband.
Hot Sour Salty SweetMy favorite cookbook authors, Jeffrey and Naomi travel, eat and get to know the unsung cultures of the world. The lucky guys.
KCRWA public radio station that broadcasts from the basement of a building at Santa Monica College that streams the hippest, coolest music to write recipes by.
Mixed GreensA PacNW blog that is dedicated to eating, cooking and shopping locally.
Rasa MalaysiaThis site always gets my tummy rumbling. Gorgeous food porn and unusual and not-so unusual recipes and musings on Malaysian food done by a Penang native.
Sweet PetulaSeattle body care that smells great without being too perfumy.
TasteMore food porn, and some interesting recipes.
What to EatMarion Nestle's book is very inspiring and helps you from the occasional grocery store freakout. Should I eat this, should I not, will it kill me, will it kill the Earth? Questions answered.