Publisher: Poor Man's Feast —

In 2011, I was thrilled to have been nominated for a James Beard Award in the individual food blog category, and to lose to one of my heroes, Barry Estabrook; in 2012, Poor Man’s Feast won a James Beard Award for best individual blog. You can read my work in many other places, including Zester, Saveur, Edible Communities Publications, Gilt Taste, Spenser, Leite’s Culinaria, Garden Design, the New York Times, the L.A. Times, and other outlets; I also appear on public radio (syndicated and local), talking about issues surrounding everything from sustainability and food justice to the glories of “real” food and simple cooking. Since 2007, I’ve been a food columnist for The Huffington Post, and my memoir, Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, was published by Chronicle in 2013 to critical acclaim, with the NY Times Book Review declaring it “one of the finest food memoirs of recent years.” I’ve contributed to and/or edited many cookbooks, and my first cookbook, Big Food, was published by Rodale in 2005. Poor Man’s Feast was thrice chosen for inclusion in 2011, 2012, and 2013 Best Food Writing (Da Capo); when they published an excerpt from my book in 2013, I did a happy dance across my front lawn.