Hannah Birenz

Location: Medusa, New York

Education: New York University

Hannah’s blog HB Cooks explored food culture, travel, nutrition, and mental health through original illustrations, photography, and recipes. Her food writing is featured in Serious Eats.
She developed, bottled, and sold a line of small-batch cashew milk from a personal recipe at the Lexington Farmers’ Market.
Hannah got hands-on experience in eco-farming as a volunteer farmhand in India.

Experience

Hannah’s obsession with food and love of travel are the driving forces in her life, resulting in a wide array of experiences, such as cheesemaking, beekeeping, bonfire cooking, and tea picking. She got hands-on experience in eco-farming as a volunteer farmhand in India. Hannah developed, bottled, and sold a line of small-batch cashew milk from a personal recipe at the Lexington Farmers’ Market. Her blog HB Cooks explored food culture, travel, nutrition, and mental health through original illustrations, photography, and recipes. She wrote a Jewish deli primer for Serious Eats.

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

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