Featured Work
This story for Plate Magazine is one I've wanted to write for years! It's about all the misconceptions surrounding traditional Irish cuisine. (Spoiler: put down the corned beef and cabbage.) It's always so much fun to speak with chefs…
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My first piece for my hometown Minnesota Monthly magazine was on the super-cool John Pederson and his 612 Sauna Society. It's a mobile co-op sauna that travels around Minneapolis, allowing members and the public to get a dose sauna…
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This was my second year doing the Best New Event Spaces story for Crain's Chicago Business, and it's one of my favorites. It's a beast of a feature, for sure. But I love being able to chat with entrepreneurs about what drives them and how…
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For Tales of the Cocktail magazine, I talked to three different beverage directors about how they got their bar teams to get on board with ambitious new programs. They had some really fun ideas! Click here to check it…
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It was such an honor — and so much fun — to work on this feature for Crain's Chicago Business. It's a list of the city's best new event spaces, and it involved visiting so many incredible spaces. Narrowing it down to the strongest,…
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One of my favorite assignments in my entire career — I got to sing the praises of my amazing mom and our New Year's Day goulash tradition for Lucky…
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Want to get freaked out? Check out this scary tale that I had published in Chicago Literati. The scariest part? It's…
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I love when I am assigned to cover someone doing something super innovative and cool, like this piece for Plate online. At Hewn Bakery in Evanston, Ill. they've embarked on a three-year project to resurrect heritage grains that haven't…
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I had the pleasure of talking to designer Lukas Machnik about one of his projects, an eco-friendly home in Old Town, for Chicago Home &…
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One of my favorite food stories that I've done. I talked to both chefs and critics about the changing role of the restaurant reviewer for Plate online. It was fascinating to get so many different points of view, and to dig into the…
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