Jaymee Sire By Mary Wallace
Not all those who wander are lost Several mornings a week, you can catch Jaymee Sire on ESPN SportsCenter from about 7 am to 9 am Mountain time. Who is Jaymee Sire? Hometown girl from Great Falls. Engaging smile. Quirky sense of humor. Emmy Winning San Francisco Sports Reporter. Food & Travel Blogger. Popular ESPN SportsCenter Anchor. Inspiration for the Jaymee Sirewich at Ike’s Place in San Francisco. Is it any surprise that Jaymee Sire finds adventure, good food, and fun no matter where her path leads her? Jaymee Sire grew up on a ranch in Belt, Montana and attended high school in Great Falls. She graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Communications and for a short time was a news reporter at KRTV in Great Falls. But she quickly discovered that reporting serious news was – well . . . awfully serious. So she
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switched her focus to sports reporting and that is when she hit her stride.
Jaymee accepted a position as a sports anchor/ reporter at Comcast SportsNet in the Bay Area in 2008, where she produced feature stories and shows, contributed to the stations online blogs & videos and social network sites. She won the 2009 San Francisco/Northern California Emmy for a feature called ALL A’S: The A’s In Japan, a Pacific Southwest Emmy Award for Best Sports Story of 2007 and the 2004 RTNA Golden Mike Award (Southern California) for Best Sports Feature Reporting. One benefit of living in San Francisco, says Sire, was all the fresh & delicious food choices! Jaymee’s love of food and cooking began during her middle school years, when she was assigned the weekly chore of cooking a complete dinner once a week for the whole family. Not just any dinner – it had to be a balanced meal complete with a protein, veggie & starch AND it had to be aesthetically pleasing.
In California, there was so much fresh food, and Jaymee enthusiastically subscribed to a weekly CSA farm share box of fresh seasonal produce, enjoying the challenge of creating something delicious out of the completely random and sometimes mysterious veggies (fava beans?) that she got each week. San Francisco also has many AMAZING places to dine out and Jaymee seemed to talk about her adventures in food so much, that a co-worker suggested she start a food blog. In 2011, “E” IS FOR EAT was born. Jaymee blogged her way through the alphabet, sharing stories & recipes about everything from Asian Food and Bacon Brussel Sprouts to Zucchini Bites! At that point, the blog began featuring whatever fun food happened along that week (including a somewhat shocking number of recipes for Jello Shots) – with some of her travel and restaurant adventures interspersed throughout. (It’s a pretty fun blog - humorous, informative, and loaded with fantastic recipes! – Check it out at www.eisforeat.com.)