Sally Hurst

Sally Hurst

I threw my first dinner party in the fourth grade - sent invitations to my family and sat them down for three courses at the dinner table. As the daughter of a foreign correspondent, I traveled around the world and watched my mother prepare elegant meals in primitive kitchens in Moscow, Russia, Ankara, Turkey, and London, England. Perched on the tall blue kitchen stool that followed us around the globe, I watched her prepare hors d'oeuvres and cocktails for 100 in our two bedroom Soviet apartment, and elegant dinners for dissidents and diplomats.

Back in the US, I received my MFA in creative non-fiction writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts and received my Grand Diplome in Culinary Arts at the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Since then I've worked as a private chef in New York, San Francisco, Paris, a boat in the Mediterranean, and London. Today I'm a regular contributor to Travel & Leisure Magazine's Carry On blog and NBC's Today Show, combining what I've learned in kitchens on the job with my writing background, to share my unbiased, knowledgeable musings on recipes, restaurants, travel and all things edible.

My latest venture is in Amman, Jordan where I will continue to cater