About me

I'm based in San Francisco where I mostly write about food, California and life -- but mostly food. I contribute regularly to NPR online's Kitchen Window series, and have written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Point Reyes Light, chow.com, and Backpacker magazine, among other publications. For two years I wrote the monthly "Common Walls" column for the San Francisco Chronicle's Home and Garden section about the trials and tribulations of the apartment dweller.

Before moving [home] to the Bay Area I lived in Washington, DC, where I worked for the Washington bureau of Reuters -- I was a founding member of the team that produced the first incarnations of reuters.com -- wrote features for the global wire, freelanced for local publications and hosted countless dinner parties.

I write about my culinary forays on my food blog; when I'm not in the kitchen I'm usually out for a run, exploring my native state, or have my head in a book.

I'm currently working on my first cookbook, all about naturally flourless desserts, to be published in 2014 by Chronicle Books.

This website contains a selection of my journalism from the last few years. Please contact me me for more information about my work.