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 ...
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 ...
An interview with Stanford University professor John Perry on NPR last year caught my ear (one of those “driveway moments” when you can’t leave your car until the story is over). Perry talked about his book “The Art of Procrastination,” ...
There’s a difference between looking and seeing, between hearing and listening. Many of us (I raise my hand) are better at the former than at the latter. We look, but we don’t see. We hear, but we don’t listen. Over many ...
This has been making its way around the interwebs in the past 2 weeks, so perhaps it's not new to you. But I'm utterly charmed by Minneapolis-based designer David Schwen and his Pantone Pairings project. Schwen takes two compatible foods ...
So much of my work as an independent food writer and journalist involves helping people learn to cook simply, healthfully and seasonally. My ongoing work with Kroger, the grocery retailer with a massive footprint across the U.S., is an example. ...
With so much business-related interaction happening in the digital realm, you might wonder whether such old-fashioned niceties as a well-designed business card still matter. They do. A great business card design makes such a strong impression. These days, it's not so much ...
With Thanksgiving Day in our rear-view mirror, the subject of gratitude still feels relevant. We typically think of gratitude in a personal sense—as in, feeling thankful for our health and our family. For a moment, let’s turn that gratitude toward ...