Karen Himmer Vanarsdel

For the past nine years, Karen has been a Senior Culinary Instructor at Salud! Cooking School in Whole Foods Market in Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee. She teaches adult and children’s classes with an emphasis on her great passion – Asian cuisines. She has traveled extensively and completed coursework at various culinary institutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe. She is an avid knitter and reader. She shares her life with her husband, Tom, and dog, Andy, in Franklin, TN.