Nevin Martell

Martell is the author of eight books, including Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold-Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery, The Founding Farmers Cookbook: 100 Recipes for True Food & Drink, It’s So Good: 100 Real Food Recipes for Kids, the travelogue-memoir Freak Show Without a Tent: Swimming with Piranhas, Getting Stoned in Fiji and Other Family Vacations, and the small-press smash Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip. His ninth book, How to Cook Foraged Foods without Dying, will be published by Storey Publishing on March 2, 2027. 

He has appeared on the hit Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil, NPR, The Frommer’s Travel Show, Expedia’s Out Travel the System, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Bookman’s Corner, Chatter On Books, and The Moveable Feast, plus starred in a beer commercial. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the highly successful New Kitchens On The Block event series and the internationally acclaimed Pay It Furloughed initiative. 

He holds a master’s from The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a bachelor’s from Vassar College.