Lau­ra Sil­ver is an award-win­ning jour­nal­ist whose writ­ing on food and cul­ture has appeared in The New York Times and The For­ward and on NPR. Lau­ra has been a writer in res­i­dence at the Mil­lay Colony, the Banff Cen­tre, and the New York Pub­lic Library. She is cur­rent­ly con­sid­ered the world’s lead­ing expert on the knish.