The Takeout

Contributor

The Takeout is a food and pop culture website from the folks who brought you The A.V. Club and The Onion. Based on a trip to Maulbronn Monastery, a 12th-century marvel in Southern Germany, I wrote a travel and recipe feature on the charming history of Maultaschen, a German pasta dumpling filled with meat.

• How to Make Maultaschen, Germany's Sacrilicious Meat Dumplings (July 2018)

Travel and Words Conference

Board Member

From 2017 to 2019, I was a board member of Travel and Words, a Northwest travel and lifestyle writers' conference. At the 2018 conference in Yakima, WA, I answered writers' questions as part of two editors panels, alongside the likes of Spud Hilton and Kim Cooper Findling, and taught a positively received workshop for experienced writers called The Ingredients of Culinary Writing: "Everybody dreams of being a restaurant critic, getting paid to opine about an endless array of dishes. But these opportunities are rare, and in the course of travel and lifestyle writing, it’s just as important to approach food from a journalist’s viewpoint. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to season your writing with evocative descriptions of food, break restaurant-industry scoops, and tell a good story that happens to involve food."

CIDERCRAFT

Contributor

CIDERCRAFT is the first and only print publication dedicated to cider in North America. I’ve contributed everything from a take on Maine's historical and contemporary cider landscape to recommendations of spiced ciders to try throughout the country. I’ve also rounded out the magazine’s year-end coverage on several occasions, profiling industry movers and shakers, compiling lists on topics like cider-focused restaurants, and helping judge the publication’s annual cider awards.

• Hot Spot: Embracing Apple Heritage in Southern Maine (Summer 2017)

• Handpicked: Spice and Everything Nice (Fall 2017)

• The Advocate: Ambrosia Borowski (plus three additional profiles and four sidebars, Winter 2017)

BeerAdvocate

Contributor

Until suspending operations in 2019, BeerAdvocate was America's premier beer magazine. My first feature profiled Maine's hottest young brewery. My second, for the magazine’s 10th anniversary issue, explored the growing trend of big companies opening small, experimental brewpubs or taprooms in busy neighborhoods. I also explored the musical sensation Beer Choir, and wrote a beer guide to Portland, Maine, published to coincide with BeerAdvocate’s Beer Meets Wood event in Portland.

• Bissell Brothers Brewing Co.: Pushing Limits in Portland (July 2016)

• If They Build It, Who Will Come? National Brewpubs With Neighborhood Aspirations (Dec. 2016)

• Where to Drink in Portland, Maine (September 2017)

Find all of my work for BeerAdvocate here.

SevenFifty Daily

Contributor

SevenFifty Daily is an online magazine about the business and culture of the beverage alcohol industry. I wrote two features for the website launch, including a How To on opening a bar based on the experiences of two acclaimed Seattle bar owners and a report on the trend of tea cocktails in Seattle. I've also interviewed American and Canadian winegrowers about the challenges and benefits of obtaining organic certification for their vineyards, explored why brewers should be going to hop harvests, and investigated why American winemakers are increasingly replacing oak barrels with acacia wood barrels.

• Creative Financing Gets Two New Seattle Bars Afloat (July 2017)

• Tea Finds Its Seat at the Bar (July 2017)

• Transitioning From Conventional to Organic Winegrowing (August 2017)

Read all of my work for SevenFifty Daily here.

Sip Northwest

Contributor

Sip Northwest is a quarterly magazine that showcases the wines, beers, spirits, and ciders of the Pacific Northwest. I’ve interviewed chefs about how to cook with sake at home, created tasting notes on six natural wines from the region, and ruminated with low-intervention winemakers on the contemporary state and possible future of natural wine in the area.

• Flavor Enhanced: Local Sake Hits the Pan (Summer 2017)

• Minimal Intervention, Maximum Flavor: The Natural Wine Movement (Fall 2017)

• What's in a Name? Winemakers Push to Evolve and Define Natural Wine (Spring 2018)

Seattle Refined

Contributor

Seattle Refined is a hip lifestyle site tracking Pacific Northwest trends from food to fashion and entertainment to adventure. In 2017, I broke a news scoop about and explained the Seattle launch of Airbnb's Experiences program.

• Can Airbnb Experiences Unlock a New Side of Seattle? (April 2017)

Eater Maine

Editor

Eater Maine, now a retired site with occasional map updates, was the ultimate destination for foodie news in the Pine Tree State. From 2014 to 2016, I published 1–3 entries per day covering food news and dining guides and managed a group of freelance writers and photographers who contributed regularly to the site. I also maintained the website's Twitter and Facebook pages.

• Full Frontal Noodly: Ramen Suzukiya's Food Porn Window Display (October 2014)

• Exclusive: Preview Portland Tiki Bar Rhum's Handmade Skull Mugs (December 2015)

• Sean Wilkinson Dissects Might & Main's Roaring Restaurant Successes (April 2015)

See all of my work for Eater Maine here.

Knack Factory

Contributor

I helped Knack Factory, a small, Portland-based multimedia content production house, flex its editorial muscles, diving into Portland's barbershop culture, with photography by Knack Factory co-founder Zack Bowen.

• Hot Dog and a Haircut (May 2015)