• Built 50-seat full-service restaurant
• Emphasize the importance of sustainable cuisine by using local, preferably organic ingredients whenever feasible
• Utilize high local profile to help build networks of farmers and local chefs
• Received Best Restaurant in the Area awards in two major readers’ surveys in 2005 through 2009
• Built and administrate restaurant blog/website
• In season, grow many ingredients for the restaurant in 1-acre garden

• Write regular columns in local & national publications, reaching a readership of approximately 1,750,000 people
• Table Wine – The Iowa City Press-Citizen: Weekly; Wine and food pairing
• It’s About the Food – Little Village: Monthly; Food politics, history
• The Cook’s Garden – The Iowa Source: Monthly; Gardening for the kitchen, cooking in season
• Gather ‘Round the Table – Gather.com: Bi-weekly; Official “Food Correspondent”
• Grist.org: Column “Chef’s Diary”
• NourishNetwork.com – Regular contributor
• A Cook’s Journey: Slow Food in the Heartland, published in September 2008 by Ice Cube Press
• Hot Spots on the Chile Trail coming Fall, 2010 from Chelsea Greene Publishing
• A Cook’s Journey II, coming Fall, 2011 from Ice Cube Press
• Contributor: Edible by Tracey Ryder
• Contributor: Renewing America’s Food Traditions by Gary Paul Nabhan
• Contributor: The Slow food Guide to Chicago edited by Kelly Gibson and Porsche Belloc-Lowndes

• Founded local edition of the Edible Communities family of magazines
• Completed 17  issues thus far, expanded to 12,500 print runs, distributed throughout  Iowa
• Annual readership estimated at 180,000
• Manage online edition
• Manage staff of 15 freelance contributors
• Write content, edit submissions, shoot and edit photography, manage layout, publication, and distribution
• Winner: 2010 Langeland Award of Excellence for Outstanding Community Service
• Winner: 2 Eddy Awards for Publishing Excellence

2000–2007     Slow Food Iowa – Founding Chapter Director Iowa City, Iowa

• Built first Slow Food chapter in Iowa, 40^th in U.S., there are now over 200 chapters nationwide
• Expanded membership to over 100, eventually facilitating the creation of 7 more chapters in Iowa
• Organized From the Ground, UP!, Slow Food Iowa’s school garden initiative at Tate High School
• Appointed to Slow Food USA National Board of Directors in November, 2007
• Featured on national TV news magazine CBS Sunday Morning

• B.A., Art (Photography) & Political Science, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1988
• A.O.S., Culinary Arts, New England Culinary Institute, Burlington, Vermont, 1990

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