Adrian J.S. Hale has been writing professionally as a food writer and restaurant critic for over two decades. She has written for publications such as Saveur, Portland Monthly, and others. She also worked as an editor on the Alice Waters-led travel guide series, Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery. She teaches a bread class that also tours the bakeries of Portland through Airbnb, and she recently published Mama Bread- The Art of Naturally-Leavened Whole Grain Bread at Home. She and her family travel extensively, but their home base is Portland, Oregon. She pauses to hike, forage, delve into a good book, or sit around a table with the people she loves.