jessica merchant

Best-selling cookbook author, recipe developer and writer Jessica Merchant is madly passionate about all things food. Her blog How Sweet Eats details her adventures both in and out of the kitchen, and is regularly read by millions around the globe. The popular foodie has been featured in Food and Wine, Washington Post, Bon Appetit, The Today Show, New York Times, Better Homes and Gardens, Fox News, Shape magazine, The Huffington Post, and Glamour, to name just a few. Keen to share recipes that hadn’t already appeared on her blogs, she released her first best-selling cookbook in 2014 named Seriously Delish and followed with The Pretty Dish (2018) and Everyday Dinners (2021) which also hit numerous bestsellers lists. Merchant has a massive across social media with more than a million followers across Facebook and Instagram.

Merchant lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her young family. Before becoming a full time blogger and recipe developer, she was a certified group fitness instructor and personal trainer who first started teaching fitness classes in 2001 and she also has a degree in business. Entrepreneurial her entire life, she has worked incredibly hard to be able to do what she loves, and freelance food writing, blogging and creating recipes all contribute to her full time job. She also credits her success to writing about what she loves rather than whatever is popular or the latest food trends.