Stephanie M. O'Dea (born 1976) is an American blogger, best-selling author and food writer, best known for slow cooking and
mommy blog
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ging.
[ She has appeared on ]Good Morning America
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,The Rachael Ray Show
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, KRWM, ''Real Simple
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'' magazine, ''Woman's World
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'', Oprah.com
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, and ABC.com
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.[ Her ]podcast
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s are featured on Spotify
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. O'Dea is an editor of Simply Gluten Free magazine and the founder of The Gluten Free Search Engine.
Early life and career
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area
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, O'Dea received a bachelor's degree
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in 1999 in English language and literature from San Francisco State University
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. She started her career as a director in preschool centers at the Family Service Agency for at-risk children. She held that position until 2003, when she received an opportunity to write a newspaper column called Steph and Sensibility for The Tracy Press.
From 2007, when she was seeking remote work
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opportunities to focus on her children, until 2010, she worked as a headline editor for BlogHer.com and ''Bay Area Parent'' magazine.
In 2008, she started a blog based on her mission to use her slow cooker every day of 2008.[
In October 2009, O'Dea published her first book, ''Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking''.][ The cookbook was listed for six weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list.][
In 2012, her website, A Year of Slow Cooking, was ranked third on the most influential Food Blog by ]Cision
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.SharkNinja
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infomercial as a slow cooking expert.
Personal life
O'Dea is married to Adam Elliot O'Dea, a structural engineer
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. They have three children and reside in Millbrae, California
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External links
Official website
Personal website
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1976 births
21st-century American women
American bloggers
American women bloggers
Gluten-free cookbook writers
Living people