Food photographer, recipe developer, and author Tieghan Gerard went from home cook to New York Times best-selling author. After learning how to cook by trial, error and googling, she built her incredibly successful food blog Half Baked Harvest in 2012 and now has more 4.8 million followers on Instagram. As well as sharing her hearty mix of sweet, savoury, indulgent and healthy recipes on her blog, she has featured across the media featuring on Food Network, Shape Magazine, The Cooking Channel, Self Magazine, Crate & Barrel, the Huffington Post, PopSugar, and HGTV and has written three best-selling cookbooks including Half Baked Harvest Super Simple, Half Baked Harvest Every Day and Half Baked Harvest Cookbook: Recipes from My Barn in the Mountains. Her blog has won numerous accolades and awards including 2016 Bloglovin’ Best Food Blog Award, Readers’ Choice Favorite Food Blog by Better Homes and Gardens in both 2014 and 2016 and Saveur Magazine’s 2016 Award for Most Inspired Weeknight Dinners.

Gerard grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where she began cooking aged 14 when her Dad took too long to make dinner. She later moved to the snowy mountains of Colorado, and her new home is a converted horse barn where she spends her time experimenting with recipes, photographing her food for her cookbooks and social media accounts and feeding her family. The famous foodie aims to inspire a love for food in others as well as giving them the confidence to try something new.