Ashley Rodriguez is a culinary consultant, cooking instructor, food photographer, author of Date Night In, wife, and mother of three from Seattle, Washington. Ashley blogs about life via food as the creator of notwithoutsalt.com. For her writing and creative photography, she has received awards from Saveur.com (Best Food Blog 2013), Babble.com, Brides.com, BonAppetit.com, Glamour.com, Food52.com, MarthaStewart.com, RealSimple.com, TheKitchn.com, and the TimesOnline.com. AllRecipes, Edible Seattle, Food and Wine, Vogue, Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times, and Sunset have all featured Ashley's work. Ashley worked in various professional kitchens before starting to write, including Wolfgang Puck's Spago in Hollywood Hills. Ashley now teaches in and around Seattle, as well as at her own shop, Not Without Salt.