I’m a food and travel writer with ten years of experience contributing to national magazines and newspapers. I started out as a reporter and editor at National Geographic Adventure magazine, where I’m still a contributing editor. These days, I write for such publications as the San Francisco Chronicle food section, Runner’s World, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Popular Mechanics, Wired, the New York Times, and Chow.com.

In 2005 I graduated from Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco, and then interned at Tartine Bakery. For a year I worked as a personal chef for local families, before returning to writing full time.

 

How did I migrate from National Geographic Adventure to the kitchen? I was a Manhattanite with 12 inches of counter space who hosted dinner parties for 14. In 2003, my long-distance sweetie Andrew lured me to the Bay Area. At first, I complained bitterly about San Francisco’s lack of good bagels and sushi delivery, but before long I had embraced the region’s food culture. I learned to distinguish between satsumas and clementines and expanded my view of the perfect apple from the East’s tender McIntosh, to the West’s sweet and tart Gravensteins and Pink Pearls. From there, enrolling in cooking school and turning my writing skills to food was a natural step.

 

I live in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood, with my husband Andrew, our spotted dog Griffin, and as of winter 2008, our newborn son.