Biography: Sally Schneider

Mar 13 2009, 8:00 am by The Editors

Photo by Ellen Silverman

Sally Schneider recently launched the improvised life, a lifestyle blog about making and creating with whatever is at hand. 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. 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 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 "outside the box."  Sally lives in New York City. To learn more about Sally, visit her website.