Karen S. Burns-Booth is a freelance food and travel writer, recipe developer and food stylist with a passion for local, seasonal ingredients. A member of the prestigious Guild of Food Writers, she also contributes regularly to a variety of print publications and online recipe sites, and creates bespoke recipes for numerous major brands and supermarkets in the UK and other parts of Europe. In addition to maintaining her award-winning Lavender & Lovage blog, she writes for the Great British Chefs website and runs a seasonal cooking school in North Wales. Her first book—a culinary notebook of memoirs and recipes from home and abroad—was published in fall 2018.