A Nice Cuppa

I was born and raised in Mexico City and food has been part of my visual and emotional memory since … well since always. Latin and Jewish families revolve around food and I am no exception to that rule.
I am a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and have been working in various restaurants […]

Nino Marchetti is a Portland, OR area based freelance writer who specializes in food and technology related topics. His work has appeared in print publications as well as Web sites like About.com, Designtechnica and Citysearch. He also muses about food cravings, beagles, cool tech toys and other random things at his blog Nino Nano Speed.
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I???m a foodie who loves to write (or a writer who loves food, if I want to be egalitarian about it). I get excited about ridiculous things like high-quality cake pans and a good thesaurus.
I???ve lived in New Jersey, Switzerland, Boston, London and New Jersey again (in that order). I love country music, non-fat lattes, […]

I didn’t drink my first cup of coffee until I was almost 20. I didn’t start cooking until I was 21. But now that I’ve begun, I’m addicted to both. While I don’t work in a food-related setting, most of my time is spent making, tasting, experimenting with different tastes. Born and raised in […]

I was born to a young, crazy American couple who schlept me all around Europe for a year before settling in Virginia. Their strong love of travel was passed on to me and while studying business in Italy I met my future husband. Since our first meeting we have traveled to Austria, various Caribbean […]

I’m a self-professed foodie, born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. And for as long as I can remember I have loved to cook. I can remember being a young girl, too small to actually cook but dying to help in the kitchen. To this day I vividly remember spending hours in the kitchen acting […]

When he first wakes up in the morning, Rob Z. is an 800 lb. gorilla who speaks an ancient language consisting mostly of grunts and profanities. After 20 minutes of grinding, tamping, pulling and steaming, however, he becomes the genteel geek you see here, witty and warm and ready to tackle the world. There has […]

Texas Lipton–not Zen green or Himalayan chai–was Jeff Davis’s first encounter with tea. A couple of stints in India converted his Texas tongue. A transplant to the Catskills Mountains near Woodstock, New York, he is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic […]

I tried writing this in the third person but couldn’t quite wrap my head around the obituary feel. My name is Colin Moore, a child of the early 70s, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to a pair of native Maritimers. They’re two of the best people I know. I’m the youngest of […]

Lara is a geek, wife, and mother of a soon-to-be teenage daughter living in Seattle. After many years sacrificed to the Big Softie, Lara quit her high-powered, well-paying job to pursue her dream of writing. She now spends her days creating as many lists and projects as possible, mostly of the food-related variety, to avoid […]