About Us

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Siri Simons
Siri lives in South Minneapolis with her roommates and just recently, adorable foster pups. Since becoming a vegetarian 10 years ago, she's gone from reheating Amy's enchiladas to learning how to poach eggs and cook with nutritional yeast. Siri has a hard time escaping the world of food. She united her passion for local food and youth developing by promoting healthy eating in K-12 schools, Universities, and food shelves after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Siri loves long bike rides, activism, and working on her back-country cooking skills with garden fresh produce. Martin introduced her to cast iron skillets during the winter of 2011 and she'll never be the same.



Martin Gordon
Martin Gordon is a native of the Madison area and has been living in Minneapolis for the past four years. During his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota he focused on environmental sciences and Spanish studies. During this time he started to get interested in agriculture, food and their connections with environment and people. He worked at a several urban gardens including the Student Organic Farm and the Native American Medicine Garden. Over the course of time good food, nutrition and health have become increasingly important considerations while eating and an interest in cooking was an obvious next step. Now he is trying to refine this art and have a little fun writing entries for 'The Smoking Skillet' in the process.

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Look for updates and thoughts from us on the topics below, and maybe more:

- Healthy Recipes
- Gardening
- Mushrooms
- Cross Country Skiing
- Winter Biking