Sonya Sanford
Seattle · parents from Ukraine
Sonya Sanford was born in Seattle to immigrant parents from Ukraine and learned to cook at home: pickling, preserving, foraging and recipes handed down through generations.
- Cookbook Braids, 2023
- Founded Beetroot Market & Deli
- Producer on CBS's Recipe Rehab
- Co-hosts Food Friends podcast
“These recipes are more than just food. They're stories.”
She found Pacific Northwest food while studying at Reed College and cooking in Portland restaurants. For more than a decade in Los Angeles she worked as a personal chef, food stylist and culinary producer, including CBS's Emmy-nominated Recipe Rehab and Tastemade's James Beard Award-winning Thirsty For. In 2018 she came back to Portland to open Beetroot Market & Deli, which the pandemic closed.
Her first book, Braids, came out in 2023: the challah, babka and matzo ball soup from Beetroot, wild mushroom blintzes, marionberry rugelach. Today she teaches pelmeni, vareniki and challah, co-hosts the Food Friends podcast and leads Portland farmers' market tours.
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