I'm a longtime food, drinks, and features writer who is as comfortable writing about road trips to rural Quebec, oyster farming, or haunted bars as I am about supply-chain snags or black-market beer. I move fluidly between between visual storytelling, blogging, criticism, and long-form narrative, and most recently I worked as a dining critic and drinks columnist at Newsday. I've been a restaurant critic and food-and-ag columnist in New England, a region I'm deeply familiar with. I'm also an accidental expert, speaker, and author on colonial-era drinking. I hold an BA in journalism from the University of Arizona, an MFA in nonfiction writing from Goucher College, and a WSET 3 certification from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

I easily see patterns and anomalies, which helps me spot trends as they take shape. I can usually get strangers to open up about things they might not normally share, can slip in and out of spaces relatively unnoticed, and have a hypersensitive palate —which terrorized me as a kid but has become a present-day superpower.

Tacos, bubbles, oysters, road trips, hidden places, snow, raw fish, cab franc, cooking for friends, connecting dots, and talking to strangers.

Celery, artificial sweeteners, and apathy.