Tamar’s previous books are Something Old, Something New and An Everlasting Meal.

Tamar is a former professional cook. She is an author, a podcaster, a contributing editor at Vogue Magazine, and a mother. She likes to run increasingly short distances, and has recently become enamored of playing tennis, at which she is only fair-to-middling.

Tamar was an editor at Harper’s Magazine from 2001 through 2004. After cooking at Prune restaurant one summer, she became the chef of Farm 255, in Athens, Georgia. She eventually moved to California to cook at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.

Tamar has been writing full time since 2011. She has been a columnist for the New York Times Magazine, has reviewed various books for the New York Times and the New Yorker, and has been lucky enough to cover topics as wide-ranging as seaweed, hot dogs, baby weaning, and diet culture for Vogue Magazine.

Tamar lives with her family in Hudson, NY, where she cooks beans, and greens, and minestrone, and where this video was made.