Tracey Ryder

Tracey Ryder was born in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York to a family of farmers and hunters. For over 30 years, she worked as a writer, graphic designer, and entrepreneur in California. In 2002, she co-founded Edible Communities — a network of over 80 regional food magazines across the US and Canada, with her partner, Carole Topalian. The company's first book, "Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods," was published in April 2010 by John Wiley & Sons. A series of local "Edible" cookbooks was subsequently published by Sterling Epicure, including "Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook," and others for Seattle, Dallas and Fort Worth, and the Twin Cities. Today, Ryder travels the country as a public speaker and spends her free time exploring the culinary traditions, crops, and authentic dishes of the southwest region and borderlands. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.