Sam Cooper

Chef, fermenter, gardener, and author growing food and developing recipes in Mid Wales.

Focused on sustainable and local produce, Sam promotes seasonal eating and land first cooking through the sharing of recipes and food preservation techniques in books, courses, and social media.

Known online as Chef Sam Black, with a following of 500k+, his recipes are enjoyed all over the world, with focus on the simple and elegant home cooking, and the use of fermentation to unlock flavours and nutrition that cannot be bought from the store.