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About the Chef

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Sasa (or Sandy) is the genius behind these amazingly delicious recipes. He is already well-known on the blog Bluebirdbaby, where he has shared a few scrumptious gluten-free recipes. As a high school student, he could already be found in the kitchen baking bread, and when asked what his all time favorite birthday present was, he replied with, "a popcorn popper I got when I was 18!" (And that was said with a giggle and huge grin.)

After high school he traveled Europe where he settled in Switzerland for six months and studied Swiss cuisine while working as a chef at a hotel in Zermatt. He later returned to the US to attend the Culinary Insitute of America in New York. There he learned everything from how to chop an onion (and there were many onions) to how to make the perfect crossiant. From the CIA, he went to Maine to open up a bakery out of a barn on Mt. Desert Island where he perfected pie crusts and granola.

Now he's living on the coast of Maine and cooks every chance he gets. He experiments with gluten-free recipes (all of the recipes you find here are gluten-free!) and perfects them all. He's one of those crazy good gluten-free bakers that can trick people into thinking they're actually eating the real thing.

Sasa's advice to all cooks ::

"Don't panic, and you can never have too much salt or butter!"

About

  • the family
  • the chef

Categories

  • all those necessities
  • chicken love
  • chopsticks required
  • green stuff
  • home cookin'
  • in the oven
  • Mambo Italiano
  • rav reviews
  • s. love and special sauces
  • sweetness
  • the chef
  • things that slurp
  • uncooked love
  • wake up and eat
  • wonka would be proud

Inspiration

  • Sally Fallon: Nourishing Traditions:  The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

    Sally Fallon: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

  • Valerie Gennari Cooksley: Seaweed: Natures Secret to Balancing Your Metabolism, Fighting Disease, and Revitalizing Body and Soul

    Valerie Gennari Cooksley: Seaweed: Natures Secret to Balancing Your Metabolism, Fighting Disease, and Revitalizing Body and Soul

  • Michael Pollan: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

    Michael Pollan: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

  • Jeffrey Alford: Seductions of Rice

    Jeffrey Alford: Seductions of Rice

  • Robert Landolphi: Gluten Free Every Day Cookbook: More than 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes from the Gluten-Free Chef

    Robert Landolphi: Gluten Free Every Day Cookbook: More than 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes from the Gluten-Free Chef

  • David Tanis: A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes

    David Tanis: A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes

  • Jane Eayre Fryer: The Mary Frances Cookbook - 1912 Reprint: Adventures Among The Kitchen People

    Jane Eayre Fryer: The Mary Frances Cookbook - 1912 Reprint: Adventures Among The Kitchen People

  • Mark Bittman: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

    Mark Bittman: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

  • Marion Rombauer Becker: Joy of Cooking

    Marion Rombauer Becker: Joy of Cooking

  • Anna Thomas: Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure

    Anna Thomas: Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure

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