Contributors: Spring 2024
Peter Acker
British-born Peter Acker has been shooting full time since 1996. He works extensively in corporate events, which takes him all over the world. Locally he shoots events, portraits, and commercial. To see more: packerphoto.com
Deepa Alfano
Deepa is a dedicated foodie who loves to share her lifelong passion for cooking through her cookery classes. She is a strong proponent of eating locally grown whole foods and cooking from scratch.
Kathryn Brass-Piper
Kathryn Brass-Piper is a freelance photographer in Sarasota and the surrounding areas. She specializes in food, portraits, and editorial photography. She holds an associate’s degree in photographic technologies, and a BFA from Florida Atlantic University.
Vanessa Caceres
Vanessa Caceres is a food, agriculture, travel, and health freelance writer based in Bradenton.
Devany Vickery-Davidson
Devany Vickery-Davidson resides in Vero Beach. She is a freelance writer who has been a contributor to Edible East Bay and Edible Hawaiian Islands. She had a cooking school in Chicago. She is also a volunteer chef for World Central Kitchen.
Randi Donahue
Randi Donahue is an aspiring modern homesteader and second-generation Sarasotan who savors any chance to learn and write about local entrepreneurs and small-scale farmers making waves in the sustainable food and conscious-living industries.
Megan Greenberg
Gimme my kids and something fatty and flavorful and I’m good to go forever.
Veronica Johnson
Veronica Johnson is a home cook with a passion for cooking. You can usually find her in the kitchen whipping up a fun new recipe for family and friends, or creating her next contribution to Edible Sarasota.
Stephanie Peabody
Stephanie Peabody, PsyD, HSPP, executive director of the Brain Health Initiative, is a mom, nana, neuropsychologist, and foodie with a focus on lifestyle and brain health. At Harvard, she teaches Lifestyle Medicine for Brain Health and Performance and Nutritional Neuroscience: Nutrition is Medicine for Brain Health.
Stephanie Roberts
Stephanie Roberts is passionate about all things local. She spends her days researching everything going on in our community as the executive producer and host of “Suncoast View” on ABC7. Her nights are spent feeding and parenting her four teenage boys and a young adult daughter.
Carissa Warfield
I have been photographing professionally since 2001. I’m inspired by nature, traveling the world, and meeting people from different cultures. There’s beauty everywhere, and I love capturing it to share with others!
Kaye Warr
Kaye Warr has been eating, drinking, and writing her way through Sarasota since 1996 and she feels privileged to be a part of Sarasota’s collaborative and creative food community.
