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Tara Jensen is an award-winning baker, sought after baking instructor and author of two baking books, A Baker’s Year (St. Martins, 2018) and most recently, Flour Power (Potter 2022), listed as one of the Washington Post’s top 10 cookbooks books of 2022. Her breads, pizzas, pies and pastry have been featured in Bon Appetite, Food & Wine and she was named one Southern Livings’ chefs of the year in 2021. Jensen hosts monthly, in person baking workshops featuring her mobile, wood fired oven, along with virtual classes on everything from bread to pies, to pizza. She writes a bi-weekly baking focused newsletter to over 9,000 subscribers and posts fun baking content to over 111k Instagram followers under the handle @bakerhands. You can learn more about her here: taraejensen.com.