👩‍🍳 Meet Shara Cooper

Recipes & Roots explores Canadian food traditions, seasonal cooking, and place-based food knowledge—rooted in Edmonton and the wider Canadian landscape.

The site brings together food history, practical and seasonal recipes, foraging and local foodways, and reflective essays. While the focus is Canada-wide, much of the work is grounded in Edmonton and the surrounding region, where I live and write.

I’m Shara Cooper, a writer and editor interested in food as culture — how it’s shaped by geography, memory, labour, and time. My work draws on food history, creative nonfiction, and education, with an emphasis on thoughtful, place-based writing.

To see more about me, explore my personal site: shara.ca

Recipes & Roots is intentionally slow — a space for careful reading, practical knowledge, and connection to food and place.