Stephanie O'Dea is an American blogger, New York Times best-selling author and food writer, best known for slow cooking and mommy blogging. She is mostly seen on Good Morning America and The Rachael Ray Show.
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Early Life & Career
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, O'Dea graduated in 1999 in English literature from San Francisco State University. Soon afterwards, she married Adam O'Dea, a structural engineer and have three children. She started her career as a director in preschool centers at the Family Service Agency, for at-risk children. She held that position up until 2003, before getting an opportunity to write a newspaper column called Steph and Sensibility for The Tracy Press.
In 2007, she was seeking work from home opportunities to focus on her children and started working remotely as a headline editor for BlogHer.com and Bay Area Parent magazine. While editing blog posts for these companies, she thought to start her own blog on slow cooking recipes. She founded and continues to operate the blog, AYearofSlowCooking.com formerly crockpot365.blogspot.com. She continued to work for Bay Area Parent magazine and as a headline editor for BlogHer.com until 2010, before focusing completely on her websites and writing.
O'Dea saw success with the launch of her first book Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking in October, 2009. The cookbook was listed for six weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. In 2012, her website, A Year of Slow Cooking, landed the number three spot on the most influential Food Blog by Cision. She has been featured in Real Simple Magazine, Woman's World, Oprah.com, and ABC.com. O'Dea is an editor of Simply Gluten Free magazine and the founder of The Gluten Free Search Engine. In 2010, she was featured in the Ninja Cooking System infomercial as a slow cooking expert.
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Bibliography
- 2009. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking. Hachette U. p. 48. ISBN 1401394825.
- Totally Together: Shortcuts to an Organized Life. Berkley Books. 2011. p. 171. ISBN 0425241629.
- More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: 200 Brand-New, Budget-Friendly, Slow-Cooker Recipes. Hachette UK. 2010. p. 320. ISBN 1401396488.
- 365 Slow Cooker Suppers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. p. 336. ISBN 1118230817.
- Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging At Home In Their Pajamas (The Mommy Blogger Next Door). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 112. ISBN 1505696526.
- Going Gluten Free Without Going Crazy: Surviving and Thriving Gluten-Free. p. 38. ASIN B00XKLD0PI.
- Five Ingredients or Less Slow Cooker Cookbook. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2015. ISBN 0544284224.
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