Cooks 2022

  • Home-Crafted Creations

    For most of us, baking at home is a task done on the weekend for fun, to celebrate special occasions, or to satisfy the occasional sweet tooth. And as we saw in spring of 2020, baking also can be a source of enormous comfort during uncertain or stressful times.

  • Farm to Flour

    Putting food on familiesโ€™ tables always was a dream for Tom and Andrea Traphagan. The two spent two decades indirectly doing so as they farmed alfalfa and grain hay for livestock feed on roughly 800 acres in Standish and Ravendale, Calif.

  • Camper Chic

    Wyatt Denny is a world-class bareback rider from Minden. Since he was 10 years old, Denny has been working toward his rodeo goals, many of which heโ€™s achieved, and heโ€™s only 26.

  • Not Cookie Cutter

    If they gave merit badges for being better late than never, Colleen Worlton certainly would have earned one. Worlton has served on the board of the Girl Scouts of Sierra Nevada for seven years, for the past three as its chair.

  • Bold Broadcaster

    Connie Wray is the first to admit that, deep down, sheโ€™s really an adrenaline junkie.

    How else would you explain someone whose rรฉsumรฉ includes marketer, emcee, voice talent, keynote speaker, podcast and video producer, fundraiser, promoter, social media influencer, content creator, storyteller, suicide prevention activist, humanitarian, and experienced radio/television host for more than 20 years โ€” many of these done concurrently?