Leah Kaplan - The Takeout

Location

Chicago, IL

School

Dickinson College, Johns Hopkins University

Expertise

Food history, cooking & recipe development, international travel

Leah backpacked across six continents in a single year to experience different cultures and learn from their stories.
She has taken local cooking classes in nearly a dozen countries to master different recipe development techniques, from India to France to Peru to Vietnam.
When Leah first moved to Chicago, she was a barista at an exclusively gluten-free café. She developed several recipes that remain some of the most popular menu items to this day.

Experience

Leah has worked in strategic communications for a decade, helping senior leadership and mission-driven organizations refine their storytelling strategy. However, cooking and bringing people together around the table through food has always been her passion. Leah has ghostwritten for several popular food blogs, with expertise in recipe development content strategy. With significant experience cooking and traveling abroad, Leah loves to wake up in a new city, with the entire city to explore. Whenever she is in Chicago, you can find her cooking nourishing meals for friends and family, inspired by the spices and flavors of her travels.

Education

Leah has a bachelor's degree in American studies from Dickinson College, and a master's degree in communications from Johns Hopkins University.

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