Hello, I’m Yasmin :)
Welcome to Cooking From a Fahr! I’m food writer, recipe developer (most recipes found on NYT Cooking) and author of three easy dinner cookbooks: Keeping it Simple, Boards & Spreads and Cook Simply, Live Fully.
This newsletter started out capturing my cooking adventures while trying to move to Menorca, a small Mediterranean island that I fell in love with in 2021. Now that I moved here in 2024, the newsletter has morphed into an account of my life here, while always having food and cooking at its core.
A bit about me…
I’ll make a long story short and say that my path in food has been windy and topsy turvy. Here it goes quickly: After interning at Food & Wine magazine while finishing my graduate degree in Food Studies at NYU, I returned to the magazine to work on one of their cocktail books and continued to freelance until one of my editors found me my next job as a cooking and recipe editor at a new digital startup.
After experiencing some burnout (and making great life-long friends!), I wanted to travel more without working in an office and found a job as an incognito luxury inspector for Forbes Travel Guide, which meant that I essentially traveled around the world reviewing five-star hotels, restaurants and spas undercover for four years (ridiculous job, I know, and incredibly fun in your late 20s/early 30s). My fake name was Isabella, and she had her own email address and credit card. I sometimes even wore glasses to disguise myself—it’s really shocking what a difference it makes. During that time I also wrote a weekly recipe column for Serious Eats, which led to my first cookbook, Keeping it Simple.
Since then, I’ve written Boards & Spreads and Cook Simply, Live Fully, my latest book. It’s one from the heart, as I started writing it in Menorca, during the start of the life change/journey (transformation?) that led me to upend my life to move here, so it’s both very personal and also incredibly practical as I wrote it during another rental home/traveling period, so the recipes are flexible and meant to help you navigate everyday life.
I’m a regular contributor to NYT Cooking, and you can find my recipes there as well as Food52 and the Kitchn.
You can find out more about me, my recipes and books at Yasminfahr.co or say hi online @yasminfahr!
wait, one more quick note!
If you can’t find the newsletter, check your spam folder and mark this address as ‘not spam.’ If the newsletter isn’t in your spam folder, check the Promotions tab. And thank you for joining this little community of cooks!
