As Orange Coast Magazine’s Senior Editor/Style, she oversees dining, fashion, and home-design, a dream job for someone wild about beach cottages and cashmere sweaters, and who hasn't met a margarita she didn’t like. Food editor and columnist for the Long Beach Press-Telegram and The Oregonian in Portland, she was a James Beard Award finalist, and has won two Best Column and Best Section awards from the Association of Food Journalists, for both the Portland and Long Beach papers. Chris, who has written for the Los Angeles Times and Vegetarian Times, learned to cook and develop recipes at an early age, in the kitchens of her Italian mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.