In 2015, we began publishing Last Word in Edible Ohio Valley magazine, the very back editorial page of the magazine featuring a Q&A with notable Ohio Valley people. It's one of my favorite elements of each issue, and one of ...
I'm over the moon that a project I've been involved in for about a year now has received a major industry recognition: My "Wholesome Kitchen" video series with the awesome marketing team from The Christ Hospital, part of their Healthspirations online ...
I'm always giddy when I see my food writing and recipes in print for the first time. (Or, in this case, in PDF form.) Here's another recent project with the fine folks at 84.51° in Cincinnati for Kroger's MyMagazine ...
Since I spent so much of my professional journalism career working on a graphic design magazine—where the way the page looked, not just how it read, was super important—I've come to greatly appreciate the beautiful marriage of word and image. Which ...
So, the assignment was to write about 5 iconic dishes from across Greater Cincinnati. Not fancy food, necessarily. Not things we're 100% known for, like goetta or chili or Graeter's ice cream. But dishes that if you're a newcomer to ...
Globally speaking, I'm beyond ready for 2016 to beat a hasty retreat. Seriously. Professionally, though, I'm still marveling at what a great year it was. Seriously. I was fortunate to collaborate with a number of longstanding and new clients, broadening and deepening ...
My food writing work hits the sweet spot when the subject intersects at healthy and local. So my new collaboration with The Christ Hospital and agency Curiosity Advertising is right in my kitchen, so to speak. We're working together to spotlight ...
In college, I took a 200-level English class on American literature and popular culture that focused on the intersection of music and literature. We studied Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s rock-and-roll play “Cowboy Mouth.” I remember writing a term paper ...
Thanks to a dedicated new section editor, the Wednesday food section of the Cincinnati Enquirer has been resurrected. Restaurant reviewer and food writer Polly Campbell and editor Amy Wilson are breathing new — and more important, local — life into ...
I’ve spent the past several months deep in biographies. I’ve read Beryl Markham’s “West With the Night” and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” — but that’s not the kind of biography I’m talking about here. Let’s discuss the Professional Biography, shall ...