March 20, 2014 -- College Prep Alumni Night

An Unexpected Career: Taking a love of food, family, writing, and photography from blog to book

with Erin Dracos Scott '89 and Phyllis Grant '88

College Prep Alumni Erin Dracos Scott '89 and Phyllis Grant '88 know food. Phyllis' career as a pastry cook in New York City and Erin's lifelong obsession with food have turned them both into passionate and knowledgeable cooks eager to share their experiences with a wider audience. Four years ago, Phyllis started her blog, Dash and Bella, where she shares stories, recipes, and photographs about cooking with, and for, her children. That very same summer, on the other side of Berkeley, Erin started yummy supper, a blog of (gluten-free) recipes and mouth-watering photos for the home cook.

After starting their blogs on a whim, with no pretense whatsoever of embarking on new careers, Phyllis and Erin now find themselves deeply engaged in a vibrant global community of food writers and photographers. Erin’s cookbook  yummy supper: fresh, luscious, honest recipes from a {gluten-free} omnivore will be released by Rodale Books, early fall 2014; Phyllis’ family food memoir will be published by Clarkson Potter, fall 2015.

Join us on March 20 to hear Phyllis and Erin discuss cooking, recipe development, writing, photography, social media and their passion for food!

To visit their blogs:

http://yummysupper.blogspot.com/

http://dashandbella.blogspot.com/

About  Erin Dracos Scott '89 and Phyllis Grant '88:

In the years she spent working in the fashion and design industry - from Elle Magazine to "August", her own lifestyle shop in Oakland - Erin Dracos Scott never imagined that she'd end up spending her days in the kitchen. Yet, combining a deep passion for the visual world with a lifelong love of cooking now makes perfect sense. Erin finds the greatest joy in cooking and photographing the bounty from her backyard veggie patch.

Phyllis Grant worked in pastry at New York City’s Bouley, Michael’s, and Nobu. She tired quickly of sugar and burning her forearms and never sleeping, and retired to a chaotic life in Berkeley of parenting, blogging, photographing, and writing a food memoir (Clarkson Potter, 2015).