Emily is an In My Kitchen host, a recipe developer, the author of six olive oil–focused cookbooks, a level two olive oil sommelier, the co-founder of eatcreative.ca (a food-driven creative content agency), and the founder of The Olive Oil Critic. Her family owns an olive grove in central Italy, where her love of olive oil began. She lives in Victoria, bc.

Cedar + Salt is a thoughtfully curated, beautifully photographed cookbook that brings Vancouver Island’s abundant food scene into the kitchens of home cooks everywhere.

Cedar + Salt features more than 100 recipes, separated into four sections—field, farm, forest, and sea—that showcase the most iconic and sought-after ingredients from Vancouver Island, such as blackberries, foraged chanterelles and fiddleheads, freshly harvested spot prawns and oysters, line-caught spring salmon, grass-fed beef, and cultivated foods like heritage Red Fife wheat.