Bio

I am an American born freelance writer based in Berlin and a regular contributor to NPR Berlin and the DailyBeast/ Newsweek. I have also written for the New York Times, Gambero Rosso, Time Out Berlin, La Cucina Italiana, Slow Travel Berlin, and CivilEats and am a part-time editor at Unlike City Guides, an online city guide based in Berlin. I have a Bachelors in Foreign Affairs and Middle East studies from the University of Virginia and a Master’s in Food Culture and Communications from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Piedmont, Italy where I teach a Masters course on Twentieth Century Food Literature and its relationship to contemporary food writing.