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Martha Vining grew up on a small dairy farm in northern New York state and later graduated from St. Lawrence University with a degree in art history. She eventually followed her passion for cooking by graduating from the Cordon Bleu, London, and eventually landed in Asheville, NC. Martha has worked in many different aspects of food production throughout her culinary career, including cooking, baking, production management and teaching. She has done countless cooking demonstrations at Biltmore Estate and was a culinary arts instructor for Job Corps, a federal program for at-risk youth. Martha continues to teach a variety of week-long cooking classes at John C Campbell Folkschool in Brasstown, NC and participated in a 2025 Culinary Residency at Craigardan in the Adirondacks. These days Martha is involved in a local food pantry/garden near Asheville, where she does cooking segments on local TV station WLOS ‘Carolina Kitchen’ using food pantry and garden ingredients. She has had an ongoing interest in 19th-century cookbooks and the role of community cookbooks in recipe development.
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