Hey, summer: where’d ya go?
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 ...
Tag Archives: food writing
New work: Summer vegetable recipes for Cincinnati Enquirer.
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 ...
New work: City Eats guide for Cincinnati Magazine.
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 ...
New work: Chef Michael Paley profile for Edible Ohio Valley.
Metropole is the most-anticipated restaurant debut in Cincinnati for quite awhile. I finally managed to have dinner there recently, and it was sublime. Chef Michael Paley does wonders with the freshest of ingredients prepared in the simplest of ways. You know ...
New work: Cooking magazine for Kroger.
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. ...
Food and cooking trends for 2013.
As a writer who covers food and cooking, I'm always scouting other food websites, chatting with local farmers, interviewing chefs and producers, and generally scoping out the food scene. Like design (the other much-loved subject of my freelance writing career), ...
My best recipes from 2012.
My food and recipe blog, writes4food.com, began as a creative outlet and has become a sort of second (or third or fourth) job. During 2012, I added 140+ posts, most of them recipes, many of them part of The Clara ...
New work: Recipes and blog posts for SparkRecipes.com
I love collaborating with my editors at SparkPeople.com and SparkRecipes.com, and here's why: Their goal, like mine, is to help people who perhaps don't love to cook learn to prepare healthy food for themselves and their families. My work with ...