Staff writer at The Stir, salsa-maker, Brooklyn kool-aide drinker, social media over-sharer, and former Brooklyn Food Coalition communications manager/founding member. Ask me what to do with chicken.
Staff writer for The Stir. Former communications manager/founding member of Brooklyn Food Coalition. Interested in: Food culture, home cooking, Latin cooking, food, eating, feeding myself, feeding the kid, the next meal.
Where it's as if you've somehow managed to snag an hour to meet your girlfriends for a cup of coffee - and finally have a moment to chat, uninterrupted! We understand that life is not just about parenting, but being a parent does change the game.
I oversaw all communication for the Coalition, including brochures, bi-monthly newsletters, website maintenance, library of visual elements, occasional collateral materials, social networking, and PR/publicity:
*Managed 5-10 volunteers working on an ad hoc basis on the above priorities
*Participated as a founding member in planning and implementing overall mission of BFC
*Provided information and communication materials to Outreach Coordinators
Contributor to Cookie Magazine's food blog, One Little Bite. Also provided web-exclusive content on CSAs, heritage breed turkeys, holiday baking.
Various copyediting and writing projects for Brooklyn Rail, Saveur, Insideslope.com, Comprehension Publishing, Scholastic Inc., and Gale Publishing
Last night, Saturday Night Live poked fun at me for planning to cook with cicadas. In response to SNL’s reference to me, my friend Wendy Chan said “Everything you’re doing is super cool, which is what drives trends - and brings about changes!” I don’t think we will be starting a bug eating craze in America but I do think we can help people think about eating differently.
That said, for full disclosure, I ate nachos drenched in cheesy stuff at Denny’s the other day. And, I certainly know better. Eating bugs is exponentially healthier than anything on most fast food restaurant menus.
And here I was wondering what cicadas eat. Wrong question…
My last 5 therapy sessions were this exactly.when does a serious looking face not mean something like this
Sunday cocktail: Honey rosemary meyer lemon gin fizz based on this recipe: http://threadsence.com/Blog/honey-sage-gin…oked-honey-rim/
“No, please, that’s my cover letter! It’s a compilation of four different letters, and the second paragraph alone took two days and four cups of coffee to do!”
This gif is on my dashboard four times in a row and who am I to break that chain.
THE KISS IN THE BACKGROUND OH MY GAWWWWW
-AF
Hey y’all,
It’s finally here, the event that we’ve been preparing for since our founding: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s baby. This is going to be like six trillion topless Middletons - think Hillary dancing, then triple it. Yeah.
We need all hands on deck for the next few months. I’ve…
My life for the next few months.