I'm very excited to lift the lid on a project I'm cooking up for 2014 ... a cookbook! Since last summer, I've been flirting with the idea of writing a cookbook. An opportunity that arose in August didn't quite pan out, ...
Are you startled by the fact that it’s December? Scratching your head at how quickly the year’s gone by? Me too. One way that I’m able to make sense of time’s flight is to look back at the year that’s passing, to ...
I've never met Evi Abeler in person. But we've created a really lovely collaboration. Evi is a food photographer based in New York, a winner of Food & Wine Magazine's 2013 Digital Food Awards for her work and her blog, whip+click. Her ...
Do you ever fall asleep on an airplane only to wake up when the wheels hit the tarmac? In a mental fog, you’re thoroughly flummoxed by the realization that you’ve arrived at your destination. I feel the same way as I ...
Ever wonder why you come up with the best ideas when you're not consciously trying to ... like, in the shower or behind the wheel? (Me, I get my best ideas while I'm walking our dog). It seems random, right? Turns out, ...
Ahhh ... summer. Funny how Mother Nature syncs our appetites with seasonally available produce. Right now, tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, melons — they're all abundant in our farmers' markets, and these are the foods we crave during hot weather. The August 28 ...
Recently, my colleagues at HOW asked me to create a feature story for HOWdesign.com about beautiful food package design. The pleasure was all mine, since the project combines two subjects I love: food and design. The featured works included a range ...
I love writing stories about creative people in both food and design. This spring, I contributed a sweeping, 10-segment feature package to Cincinnati Magazine's annual City Guide. The project included telling readers—primarily, people who are new to or considering a move ...
What’s ON your refrigerator? No, I didn’t ask, “What’s IN your refrigerator?” What’s ON it? Remember when you’d dash home from the bus stop after school clutching an A paper or a favorite drawing from art class? What happened next? That’s right: ...
I'm scratching my head that it was more than 2 weeks ago that I was in beautiful San Francisco for the Creative Freelancer Conference and HOW Design Live. The interim has been hectic: First, my little vintage recipe project on my ...