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Old-School Journalist with Cyber Savvy
I have written thousands of stories since I began my career as a copygirl for the Detroit Free Press in 1968, just as it won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the 1967 Detroit riots.I currently contribute to many magazines, and websites, among them gayot.com, Traverse, Northern Michigan's magazine, winner of multiple gold and silver awards in the City and Regional Magazine Association's annual competitions. I'm also a regular contributor to Destinations, Meetings North, Michigan Blue, Traverse City, Michigan Wine Country and have been a dining columnist, off and on, for the Traverse City Record-Eagle newspaper since moving to northern Michigan in 1999. I am author of the hardcover gourmet cookbook, Cherry Home Companion, and the regional softcover guidebook, Good Taste: A Guide to Northern Michigan Cuisine (both Arbutus Press) and the chief contributor to 1998's Detroit Free Press Restaurant Guide.
I did a second stint at the Detroit Free Press as a feature writer, food columnist and restaurant critic, during which time I studied in Paris at the culinary school Le Cordon Bleu in its centennial year. Before that, I was an award-winning managing editor for the edgy city magazine, Detroit Monthly, and traveled the world as news editor and reporter for Ward's Auto World magazine in Detroit.
As a freelancer, I have written articles for Saveur, Midwest Living, Detroit News, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Corporate Detroit, Corvette Quarterly, TWA, Cat Companion, Friends, SportStyle, Style Detroit and contributed to the Mobil Guide and AAA Guide. I am featured prominently in the book, Dining Out: Secrets from America's Leading Critics, Chefs and Restaurateurs by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page (John Wiley & Sons).
I'm a member of the Association of Food Journalists, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and a Great Lakes judge for the James Beard Foundation. I am working on my next book, a personal memoir, Leaving Detroit.
