The Foster's Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night by Sara Foster and Sarah Belk King. New York: Random House, 2002.
Fresh Everyday: More Great Recipes from Foster's Market by Sara Foster and Carolynn Carreno. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2005.
Sara Foster's Casual Cooking: More Fresh Simple Recipes from Foster's Market by Sara Foster and Carolynn Carreno. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007.
Foster's Market Durham
2694 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard
Durham, NC 27707
919-489-3944
www.fostersmarket.com
Foster's Market Chapel Hill
750 Martin Luther King Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-967-3663
www.fostersmarket.com
Foster's Market was supposed to be a market where you could buy fresh produce and coffee and takeout. When Sara Foster converted an old lawn mower repair shop to her new market, there was one picnic table. But the customers came and came and seemed to want more, so we have the restaurant where people are welcome to sit and drink a cup of coffee or have a whole meal with friends. And they come because the food is full of flavor, freshly made, and the menu is ever changing. Foster's Market was named Small Business of the Year in 1995, and Sara is on the advisory boards of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission and the North Carolina Pork Council. The Southeastern Booksellers Association in 2001 gave the Cookbook of the year award to her Foster's Market Cookbook. 
If it weren't for the architect who found the old place on a road lined with pawn shops, if it weren't for the antique and salvage dealer who brought in the old pine for the flooring, if it weren't for the demographic research that targeted the Triangle as an area of potential growth, if it even weren't for Sara Foster's growing tired of the New York scene and wanting something more stable, we wouldn't have the beloved Foster's Market.
Sara made the journey from rural Tennessee in a small town not too far from Memphis to Durham and later Chapel Hill via time in Europe New York, and Connecticut. The journey had some fascinating stops along the way that each nurtured her creative spirit.
