Sarah Henry Writer

Recent Articles:

Resident/Beirut: Kamal Mouzawak
AFAR, March/April 2011
An interview with the creator of Souk el Tayeb, the first farmers’ market in downtown Beirut. “I wanted to do something that celebrated out similarities rather than focused on our differences,” he says. MORE »

Beyond Wine and Chocolate
California, Winter 2010
John Scharffenberger leads a campaign to make tofu cool. A profile of this gourmet goods guru asks: “Would anyone have predicted that the erudite entrepreneur would one day find himself peddling soybean products?” MORE »

Lemons, Loquats and Greens: Berkeley’s Crop Swap Kicks Off
Berkeleyside, July 19, 2011
In a weekly food column for the site Berkeleyside, Sarah covers celebrity chefs and urban farmers, food trucks and pop-up dinners, emerging food artisans and Gourmet Ghetto legends, school food and crop swaps.. MORE »

Five Bay Area Cookbook Clubs
Bay Area Bites, January 22, 2011
Sarah regularly reports on food films and books, trends and events, people and politics, for KQED’s Bay Area Bites. Subjects include street eats, supper clubs, school food advocates, young farmers, and sustainable food. MORE »

Nikki Henderson: On the Frontlines of Edible Education
Civil Eats, August 22, 2011
A contributor to this national food policy site, Sarah covers the intersection between food culture and food politics in her stories for Civil Eats. Topics include food cooperatives, D.I.Y. urban homesteaders, and edible education. MORE »

Made From Scratch, Edible East Bay, Spring 2013 In a cover story on commercial kitchens with a community-minded focus, Sarah profiles three new spaces each with its own flavor, audience, and sense of mission. There’s a seemingly endless demand for handcrafted prepared foods, and no shortage of budding edible entrepreneurs wanting to build a business with a specific food focus. “Who doesn’t know someone who has hung his or her shingle out as a jammer, pickler, or baker?” MORE »

What’s Cooking
In 2012, Sarah wrote about cooking with her formerly selective eater son in an essay called “What’s for Dinner, Dude?” for Ladies’ Home Journal. In 2011 she was awarded the Karola Saekel Craib Excellence in Food Journalism Fellowship for promising female food writers from the Les Dames d’Escoffier San Francisco chapter. In 2010, she was the recipient of the James Patrick McDermott Scholarship for Social Change through Food Writing from The Symposium for Professional Food Writers.

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