Sarah currently lectures on writing and design in the Centre for Arts, Design and Information Technology at Toronto's George Brown College.

​She spent five years training online writers at Suite101.com, and is available for seminars  on writing and a range of cultural topics, including culinary and fashion history.

What's new?

• Sarah's latest book, Jam, Jelly and Marmalade, A Global History, was released by Reaktion Books in 2021.
• In November 2023, Sarah offered an illustrated talk on the heroes of the pasteurization movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to members of the Ontario Home Economics Association. 
• In December 2022, Sarah discussed the enduring appeal of traditional holiday foods on Peggy O'Neil's Food for the Future (Global's 980 CFPL) and spoke on CBC Radio's "Alberta at Noon" with Judy Aldous about lost snack foods.
• In March 2022, Sarah presented an illustrated lecture titled "History in a Jar: jam, Jelly, Marmalade & the people who made it" as part of a series about food programmed at the library at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.
• Her previous book, We Sure Can! How Jams and Pickles are Reviving the Lure and Lore of Local Food, was shortlisted for Taste Canada—The Food Writing Awards in the category "Single-Subject Cookbooks".

Speaking Engagements

• Webinars and in-person presentations on writing and SEO, for such organizations as The Canadian Institute; the CSNN Alumni Association; the Humber College Public Relations Diploma Program; the Sheridan College Journalism Program; the Toronto Public Library, and Word on the Street (Toronto).
• Illustrated lectures offering an overview of Canadian food history, previously delivered to such institutions as the Art Gallery of Burlington, the Brockville Museum; the Canadian Federation of University Women; the Elgin and Area Heritage Society, and the Ontario Genealogical Society.
• Historical talks about jam and marmalade, including a detailed look at the Shirriff food company, offered to the Brampton Historical Society; the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor; the Culinary Historians of Canada; Parkwood National Historic Site, and the Riverdale Historical Society.

Cooking & Culinary History

• Animation of the historic kitchen and cooking for special events from early 1800s recipes at Montgomery's Inn community museum and Fort York National Historic Site.
• Preserving and baking workshops at venues like The Cookbook Store; Markham Fair, and the Savour Stratford Perth County Culinary Festival.
• Background research for a youth-oriented television series in development examining the origins of common foods.
• Historical recipe research for the Canadian television series Back in Time for Dinner.

Photo by John Hood

Media Appearances

Sarah has extensive broadcast experience; she has hosted and reported for several radio programs, and has appeared on such web and radio outlets as:

• "Alberta at Noon", CBC Radio
  
• "The Arts Report", CBC Radio
• "Breakfast Television", Citytv (Toronto)
• "The Christina Chernesky Show", CFRB 1010 FM
• "Food for the Future", Global
• "Metro Morning", CBC Radio
• "Ontario Morning", CBC Radio
• Spacing Radio

Book signing at Mad for Marmalade in February 2012 at Fort York. Photo by Yvonne Tremblay.