Elise Bauer is the blogger and photographer behind the food blog Simply Recipes, where for the last 6 years she has been documenting her journey of learning to cook with her parents. She has been featured in Time Magazine, the Boston Globe, Redbook, and the London Times Online. Elise lives in Carmichael, California, where she grows her own tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, pomegranates, kiwi fruit, lemons, walnuts, apples, figs, plums, grapes, and nectarines. She does not raise her own chickens. Yet.