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Kara Elder

Verified
(She/Her)
Denver
As seen in: Needs More Salt, Heated, MSN, Yahoo Life, The Washington Post, Yahoo News Malaysia, Chicago Tribune, NDTV, SFGate, Substack, The Toronto Star and
Covers:  cooking, recipes, food history
Doesn't Cover: restaurant openings, holiday-focused restaurant events, most things related to restaurants or dining out
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Kara Elder’s Biography

I’m a writer based in Denver, Colorado. My work has appeared in The Washington Post, EATEN: The Food History Magazine, DCist, Midwest Living, and more. I also edit and test recipes, edit text, and collaborate on cookbooks.

I focus mostly on food, history, and cooking. Getting to the root of a wandering ingredient and using food to tell someone’s story are my favorite things.

Before freelancing full-time, I worked in the Food section at The Washington Post for four years and worked with cookbook author Joan Nathan for a few years before that. I’ve also sold spices, poured wine, peddled fruit and — ever so briefly — worked for a lobbyist.

I grew up on a farm in Washington state, went to high school in Germany, and studied Russian in Pennsylvania (which included a year-long stay in Moscow).