Linda Stradley - Author Information

Who is Linda Stradley?

Author Linda Stradley Photo was taken a few years ago (7 years ago), and I'm now getting some white hairs. I guess I'll have to update the photo one of these days to my "older" look! I'm jut not in a hurry to do this!

Linda Stradley is a cookbook author, culinary historian, web site editor, and internet entrepreneur who has been publishing her culinary website What's Cooking America since 1997.

This web site is a continuation of her first cookbook also called What's Cooking America, which she co-authored with her friend Andra Cook of Raleigh, North Carolina. To purchase Linda's cookbooks, check out What's Cooking America's Book Store.

Her website, What’s Cooking America, is a family-friendly culinary portal to the web which enjoys thousand of visitor each day. Her food articles and cooking history information appear in newspapers & magazines worldwide. Linda considers her website a "work in progress," and is always working to make it better.

Linda and her husband, Don, live in Oregon where they have a vineyard and a small boutique winery. Linda is the mother of three grown children and the grandmother of six.

A native north westerner, Linda was raised in Longview, Washington and now lives in Newberg, Oregon. Linda says, "My mom was a great cook, but she cooked the typical foods of the 50's of overcooked meat and vegetables. It wasn't until I really got interested in cooking for my family that I discovered the wonders of great food using simple fresh ingredients! I also discovered the love of eating and the problems of weight gain!"

Linda has always had a fascination with history. Put this together with her love of good food and you have a culinary historian. Linda says, "The research of the origins of foods of America have become an obsession when being introduced to new foods." Traveling with her husband, Don, all around our wonderful country, she always combines her pursuit of pleasure and eating with the pursuit of new foods and their history.

Linda has appeared on approximately twenty-five local and national television shows during her national book tours of the United States. Her daughter, Nancy Harman, produces and directs a local public television show where Linda demonstrates her culinary cooking knowledge.

Linda is the author of two cookbooks:

What's Cooking America
By Linda Stradley and Andra Cook
More than 800-family-tested recipes from American cooks of today and yesterday. What's Cooking America is actually the combination of two separate books. Each began as a collection of favorite family recipes, both old and new, written at the request of our children and friends who remembered the satisfying experiences of the food served at our own tables. To these old recipes, we have added many new and exciting delights, all tested and tasted by eager husbands, families, and friends.

I'll Have What They're Having: Legendary Local Cuisine
By Linda Stradley
This book is a celebration of one of the world's greatest cuisines - American. It tells the story of what Americans eat and why. Many people think that American food has become homogenized and nationalized, but this book shows that regional cuisine is very much alive. It has expanded to include new and exciting foods and dishes that we now call our own.

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