Michele Morris is the owner of Cooking with Michele®, where she teaches private cooking lessons to both adults and children. She is a professional recipe developer, food photographer, and trained sommelier, and leads food and wine tours in Italy.

Michele’s food writing has appeared in numerous regional publications, including The Denver Post, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, Edible Front Range, the Gaiam Community website, and Nourish Food Magazine. Her first cookbook, Tasting Colorado, was released in early 2013, and won the coveted Colorado Book Award. Her second cookbook, A Taste of Washington, was released on the fall of 2014, and like her first cookbook, features Michele’s mouthwatering food photography. She is the author of two popular blogs, one devoted to food and wine, and one covering her worldwide travels.

Michele dedicates much of her time to several philanthropic endeavors in the community. She teaches healthy cooking and nutrition to families on limited budgets for Cooking Matters Colorado, she helps prepare nutritious meals to improve the quality of life for clients of Project Angel Heart who are coping with life-threatening illness, and she teaches cooking classes to school children across the front range as part of Slow Food Denver’s Seed to Table Alliance for school gardens.

Michele is passionate about helping others eat local and seasonal food, and is committed to teaching others to make healthy, real food that families will love.