Celebrate Every Day

Jaime Richardson grew up in a coastal town south of Boston, where she learned to value classical music, literature, long walks on beaches, and fried scallops. Her love of food photography began at Brigham Young University where she earned a Bachelor's degree in design and bought her first copy of Martha Stewart Living Magazine. When she began her family, she became troubled by the amounts of artificial ingredients in the food readily available, and turned her attention to cooking and baking from scratch, learning the majority of her skills from cooking programs and food magazines. She rarely followed recipes exactly and ended up creating many of her own original dishes. As a way to keep a record of the recipes she created, and as a place to share her musings of raising her children to share her love of all things sophisticated, she began her blog Sophistimom in July of 2008. Since that time, Sophistimom has earned awards from around the web, including being named one of Babble.com's Top 50 Mommy Food Bloggers in 2010, and then again in 2011. Sophistimom has earned the attention of The Pioneer Woman, where her food was featured on both ThePioneerWoman.com and TheTastyKitchen.com. She is featured in the book Where Women Cook: Celebrate!: Extraordinary Women & Their Signature Recipes (Jo Packham, Lark Crafts, October 2011). Her work has appeared on Gourmet Live, Gourmet Magazine's daily blog, Glamour Magazine's Health blog, and in Dessert Magazine. Jaime was a food writer and photographer for Babble.com on their food blog, "The Family Kitchen." Her recipes have appeared in Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine, as part of Newman's Own "Own It!" campaign. She is part of Martha's Circle, a small group of lifestyle bloggers, hand picked by the editors at Martha Stewart. She lives with her family near Salt Lake City, Utah.

"I adore Jaime's sophisticated and inventive approach to entertaining. Her menus and recipes are designed with busy lives in mind, and it's refreshing to see a book where kids are expected to be in on the fun too." —Lori Lange, author of The Recipe Girl Cookbook and RecipeGirl.com"The special moments shared and the memories made with family need not be expensive or extravagant, they need only be created from your heart for those you love . . . and in her new book, no one is better at this than Jaime. Celebrate Every Day is a book whose pages will become well worn from constant use and inspiration." —Jo Packham, Editor in Chief of Where Women Cook