Sam Fore is a Sri Lankan-American chef and recipe developer based in Lexington, Kentucky. Her pop up, Tuk Tuk Sri Lankan Bites, crisscrossed the country to bring her Sri Lanka meets the South dishes to diners far and wide since 2016. Her pop up stints led to her first brick and mortar, Tuk Tuk Snack Shop, opened in September of 2023. Fore's cooking is a reflection of her Sri Lankan upbringing in the American South; her dishes include her spin on Southern classics as well as new riffs on her family's time-tested dishes. Her recipes can be found in multiple national publications and across the web - her take on tomato pie graced the cover of Food & Wine in 2019. She was named one of Plate Magazine's Chefs to Watch (2018), was one of Southern Living's inaugural Cooks of the Year (2020) and was named one of Taste of the South's Taste50 (2022). In 2021 she joined the cast of Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, which airs nationally on PBS stations. In 2023, Fore was named a finalist for a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Southeast.