Stir It Up! author Ramin Ganeshram figures she's read thousands of books throughout her lifetime, but her absolute favorite is still the middle reader Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. It is the book that made her want to be a writer back when she was 11 years old.
Today, the mom of a great little girl, Ganeshram is also a food writer, cookbook author and professional chef trained at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. She has written for The New York Times regional sections, and Newsday as a food columnist and feature writer. She is the author of Sweet Hands: Island Cooking from Trinidad & Tobago (Hippocrene NY 2006; 2nd expanded edition 2010).
In addition to contributing to a variety of food publications including Saveur, Gourment, Bon Appetit and epicurious.com, Ganeshram has written food/culture/travel articles for Islands (as contributing editor); National Geographic Traveler; Forbes Traveler; Forbes Four Seasons and many others. For two years she volunteered as a reporter and writer on Molly O'Neill's magnum One Big Table (Simon & Schuster 2010). She is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of World Foods (Greenwood Press 2011) and wrote the America I Am, Pass It Down Cookbook with Chef Jeff Henderson (SmileyBooks/Hay House 2011).
Stir It Up! is her first book for kids.
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