Food Critic:

• St. Petersburg Times, 3/07-present
• Citysearch, 4/99-2/05, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, L.A., Las Vegas and Tampa Bay
• San Francisco Chronicle, 3/00-6/03, for Peninsula section, dining guide contributor
• Microsoft Sidewalk, 7/98-5/99
• Palo Alto Weekly, 9/97-3/00 (also, columnist and feature writer 9/97-6/03)
• The Baltimore Sun, Recipe tester for syndicated “Recipe Finder” column 8/97-7/04; restaurant critic 6/96-6/97; freelance food writer 12/93-6/97
• Baltimore City Paper, 12/93-12/95 (also, freelance food/wine writer 12/93-6/97)

 

Author:

• Moon Spotlight Sarasota, Naples and the Paradise Coast, 10/09
• Moon Handbooks Tampa and St. Petersburg, 4/09
• Moon Handbooks Florida Gulf Coast, 9/05, second edition 10/08
• Moon Handbooks Orlando and Walt Disney World, 10/07
• Virgin Guide to San Francisco, 2001 (restaurant chapter)

 

Editor:

• Gayot.com, 8/05-present, Florida regional editor
• Zagat Survey, 8/04-present, Florida consultant, America’s Top Restaurants, 2005-2010
• South Bay Accent, San Jose, CA, 8/01-12/02, managing editor
• San Jose Magazine, 9/97-12/00, food editor
• Where Baltimore Magazine, editor 10/96-1/97; man. editor 11/94-10/96; assoc. editor 3/94-10/94
• Gault Millau, San Francisco, CA, 4/92-11/93, associate editor of The Food Paper, Tastes and The Best of San Francisco and The Best Wines of North America guidebooks
• Bay Food Magazine, Emeryville, CA, 9/90-4/92, editorial associate

 

Copyeditor (cookbooks):

• Collins Publishers, 3/93-11/93
• Chronicle Books, 3/93-11/93 and 4/98-5/99
• Ten Speed Press, 3/93-11/93

 

Other Information:

• California Culinary Academy, San Francisco, CA, associate’s degree, 1991
• University of Virginia, bachelor’s in English, 1989
• Member Society of American Travel Writers and Association of Food Journalists
• Freelance writer for 50+ regional and national magazines, newspapers and websites