Heather Arndt Anderson is an award-winning food writer and the author of four books on culinary history. She is the producer of OPB's Superabundant newsletter.

Her background in plant ecology and soil science gives her a unique perspective on the foods Oregon does best, and her love of cooking spans decades. Whether it’s working in the school cafeteria, fermenting quince vinegar in her urban farmstead, finding new ways to use up a jar of Thai crab paste, or foraging stinging nettles in swampy Johnson Creek floodplains, food is her jam. (She also makes pretty good jam.)