About Cheryl

Cheryl Sternman Rule has been writing professionally for newspapers, magazines, and websites since 2004. She is a contributor at Nourish Network, a daily blogger at iVillage, and the voice behind the food blog 5 Second Rule, which has been online since 2008 and enjoys an enthusiastic following. Cheryl’s work has also appeared in Cooking Light, Body + Soul, Health, Vegetarian Times, Restaurants & Institutions, Delicious Living, Bay Area Parent, the San Jose Mercury News, Metro Silicon Valley, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Culinate.com, and Serious Eats; in the alumni magazines of Haverford College, Hamilton College, and the University of Michigan; and in several books published by the American Heart Association. Cheryl also served as a contributing editor at EatingWell.

In 2008, she won the Greenbrier Award given by the Symposium for Professional Food Writers.

A graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, Cheryl has worked in a commercial bakery and served as both a professional recipe tester and developer. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the San Francisco Professional Food Society, Slow Food USA, and Better School Food.

Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College and a Master’s degree in education from Harvard University. Prior to joining the culinary field, she worked as a researcher at Harvard, where she co-authored a three-part book series on higher education. She also spent two years working for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC and two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Eritrea, East Africa.

Cheryl lives with her husband and two sons in Silicon Valley. She is currently working on her first cookbook, a collaboration with food photographer Paulette Phlipot, to be published by Running Press in 2012.