Digby, Estelle A. is a culinary archivist and home cook raised between prairie towns and coastal ports, where she learned to measure by handfuls and listen for the boil. After studying folklore at the University of Missouri and earning a master's in food studies in New York, she spent a decade interviewing church-lady bakers, shrimpers, diner short-orders, and immigrant community elders for regional newspapers and the small press journal Pantry & Place. She co-founded the nonprofit Recipe Box Rescue, which preserves family cookbooks and oral histories from across the Midwest and Gulf Coast, and curated pop-up exhibits on heirloom kitchen tools in libraries and town halls from Wichita to Lafayette between 2018 and 2023. When she isn't cataloging handwritten cards and cast-iron stories, Digby teaches community classes on pickling, biscuits, and resourceful pantry cooking. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with her partner and a beagle named Pickle.
