She writes for Civil Eats, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Inc., Portland Monthly, SevenFifty Daily, Vogue, and the New York Times, among other places. She is also a freelance editor. Born in England to American parents, she grew up in Westminster, Maryland and Salem, Oregon and then went on to attend Mount Holyoke College. After spending nearly a decade on staff at Travel + Leisure magazine, she jumped ship to freelance.