About Leena Eats
About Leena
Leena is the principal and senior writer for Leena Eats: Gourmet Communications. She received her M.F.A. in gastronomy from the University of Adelaide in South Australia & Le Cordon Bleu, a B.A. in speech communications with a minor in creative writing from Bradley University and her A.A.S. in culinary arts from Joliet Junior College. Leena lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, daughter and two cats. Her spare time is filled with dirty diapers, eating delicious food and busting into an occasional rap.
Leena’s writing has appeared in:
The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industry
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia
Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students newsletter
They Eat That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of “Weird” Food
Leena’s writing will appear in:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd Edition
About the blog
Welcome to Leena Eats, a big old helping of food, travel and gastronomy with a side of baby stories, a dash of bacon and a friendly butt pat. But only if you’re lucky.
The blog was originally created as a way to document Leena’s move from Chicago to Australia (where she earned a masters in gastronomy from the University of Adelaide). After graduation, Leena and her blog moved back to Chicago for a tasty but arctic year. These days, you can find her in warmer San Francisco Bay Area, eating, writing and teaching cooking classes.
