Carrie Minns

Carrie Minns is a writer and photographer who lives in Portland, Oregon with her three kiddos, her hubby, and her golden retriever coworkers. Carrie is about as Northwest born and bred as one can get. She spent her early childhood on Whidbey Island in Washington’s Puget Sound and most of her adult life has been spent in Portland, Oregon. Her family roots date back six generations in Portland to include an early trailblazer for the women’s movement, a lumber baron who sprinkled his legacy all over the city of Portland, a historian and journalist from back before Oregon was a state, and everyday folks like her living on coffee, surviving wet winters, and trying to raise their kids as best they can.

Carrie cannot recall a time in her life when she wasn’t creating—writing, photographing, cooking, painting, cross-stitching, macraméing—and in late 2009, Carrie started an unassuming food and photography blog, La Pomme de Portland, featuring stories from her life. In 2010, this blog led to a regular guest spot on AM Northwest, Portland, Oregon’s morning show, where she prepares seasonal food on live TV. She also spent three years writing, photographing, and developing recipes for the Home Grown Chef column in 1859 Oregon’s Magazine. A growing food and portrait photography business, Carrie Minns Photography, developed from the blog and ultimately, all of this led to the published book, La Pomme de Portland.

Carrie lives with the profound belief that once you strip away the labels and the societal distinctions, we all want the same things from life—to be nourished, to know love, and to feel that our lives mattered in some small way. She hopes that when you read her stories and make her recipes you come away feeling just that way about yourself.