Title:Contributing WriterEducation:Millsaps College, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLocation:Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaExpertise:Preserves, fermentation, pastryApril McGreger is an award-winning jam and pickle maker, fermentation expert, pastry chef and founder of the small-batch preserving company Farmer’s Daughter Pickles and Preserves. A passionate proponent of seasonal and local cooking, April is the author of the cookbooks The Complete Guide to Canning and Preserving and Sweet Potatoes. Her Farmer’s Daughter products have won over a dozen Good Food Awards and two Cooking Light Taste Test Awards. She also spent four years as pastry chef for the James Beard Award–winning Lantern Restaurant. Before her food career took off, April traveled to Sicily to write her master’s thesis on the Stromboli Volcano.B.S. in Geology/Earth Science and English, Millsaps College, M.S. in Geology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillEatingWell, aDotdash Meredith Brand, has been publishing award-winning journalism about food, nutrition and sustainability since 1990. Our mission is to share flavor-packed recipes from around the world, celebrating fresh ingredients and the farmers, artisans and chefs who bring them to our table. Through science-backed nutrition advice and smart stories about sustainability, we help readers live their best lives. Learn moreabout usand oureditorial process.

Title:Contributing WriterEducation:Millsaps College, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLocation:Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaExpertise:Preserves, fermentation, pastry

Title:Contributing Writer

Education:Millsaps College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Expertise:Preserves, fermentation, pastry

April McGreger is an award-winning jam and pickle maker, fermentation expert, pastry chef and founder of the small-batch preserving company Farmer’s Daughter Pickles and Preserves. A passionate proponent of seasonal and local cooking, April is the author of the cookbooks The Complete Guide to Canning and Preserving and Sweet Potatoes. Her Farmer’s Daughter products have won over a dozen Good Food Awards and two Cooking Light Taste Test Awards. She also spent four years as pastry chef for the James Beard Award–winning Lantern Restaurant. Before her food career took off, April traveled to Sicily to write her master’s thesis on the Stromboli Volcano.

B.S. in Geology/Earth Science and English, Millsaps College, M.S. in Geology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

EatingWell, aDotdash Meredith Brand, has been publishing award-winning journalism about food, nutrition and sustainability since 1990. Our mission is to share flavor-packed recipes from around the world, celebrating fresh ingredients and the farmers, artisans and chefs who bring them to our table. Through science-backed nutrition advice and smart stories about sustainability, we help readers live their best lives. Learn moreabout usand oureditorial process.