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Author of FEAST & PLENTY 📖
Writer & editor covering food, family & culture 💛
Chicago (via NYC & NJ)🌆

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Scenes from last week’s online event with Write Up’s @kelseyerinshipman and @hannahmhoward! Marvelous Freaks of Nature! cover artist @susanpickover and I had such *such* a blast discussing everything from how we settled on the hermit heart on the cover to why no one gets into short story writing for the big bucks!
Check out Write Up’s full calendar of upcoming events and pick up a copy of Marvelous Freaks of Nature! while you’re at it!
#marvelousfreaksofnature
#debutauthor
#newbook
#bookish

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A recent @businessinsider essay by @hannahmhoward put words to exactly what I’ve been feeling: “Motherhood didn’t make me less ambitious. It sharpened my focus.”

That’s it.

Motherhood made my time feel more valuable. Every yes to work became a no to something else, so career ambition became less about collecting titles and more about deciding what actually deserved the best of me.

Maybe millennial working moms aren’t losing our ambition.

Maybe we’re becoming more intentional about where it goes.

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Turns out cheese people have a natural affinity for the macabre. Makes sense, given cheese's reliance on suspended decay, microorganisms, and abundance of caves.

In her latest piece, certified sommelier and Murray’s Cheese instructor @pamelavachon_words (Pamela Vachon), whose work has appeared in Wine Enthusiast, Bon Appétit, and VinePair, rounds up 15 cheeses that deserve a spot on a genuinely haunted cheese board.

As cheese writer @hannahmhoward (Hannah Howard) puts it about Stinking Bishop: its “bark is bigger than its bite.” Honestly, that goes for most of this list.

📌 Full lineup of all 15 at the link in bio.

Which one’s going on your board this year?

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Friends and readers and marvelous freaks who live far away, you don’t have to miss out on all the book event fun!
I’m doing a pre-launch shindig on Zoom with @kelseyerinshipman and @hannahmhoward, founders of Write Up, to hype MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! a few days before it comes out. Open to all. Free.
It’s an honor to be the first author to have a Write Up book party. And did I mention we are going to be giving away some free copies? 👀👀
More info and registration in bio link. Hope to see you there! 💜

#marvelousfreaksofnature
#newbook
#writerfriends
#writingcommunity

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Look whose dance card is filling up this fall? Links to events on my website, and more dates coming soon. Which one are you going to? Would love to see friendly faces in the seats 💜

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#marvelousfreaksofnature
#debutbook
#bookfriends
#indiebookstore
#librarylove

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What happens to decades of cheesemaking knowledge when the cheesemaker is ready to stop?

When @kcadams80 closed Alemar Cheese Company and William Cofield Cheesemakers after 20 years, it wasn’t a simple exit. There were recipes, cultures, a purpose-built creamery in Sebastopol, and an enormous, mostly invisible knowledge base built over thousands of days. “It’s been a grieving process,” he says.

His story surfaces a bigger issue facing American artisan cheese: farmstead production dropped 10% between 2015 and 2021, and raw-milk cheesemakers fell nearly 20% in under four years. Meanwhile, succession is genuinely hard. It takes more than money expertise, milk access, equipment, distribution relationships, and, as Adams puts it, “this obsession with doing it. If you are not obsessed with doing it, you shouldn’t do it.”

📌 Full story at the link in bio.

Written by @hannahmhoward, author of Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen and Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family.

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Cream cheese has been waiting for its glow-up.

Thank you to @hannahmhoward and @cheeseprofessor for the thoughtful feature on Zebrina and why we’re reimagining the category.

Read it at the link in bio.🪤

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Plot twist: your Greek yogurt might have been cheese-adjacent this whole time.

Skyr vs. Greek yogurt — which one actually wins?

📌 Full breakdown at the link in bio.

Written by @hannahmhoward (Hannah Howard), author of Feast and Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family, whose work has appeared in New York Magazine, Salon, and SELF.

#skyr #greekyogurt #highproteinbreakfast #cheeselovers #healthyeating

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I’ve been chatting a lot about my UGC journey and coaching, so I wanted to take a moment to shout out the coaches I’ve worked with that have changed my career for the better. I adore all of these strong, badass women! #lifecoachingforwomen

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"Motherhood has changed my understanding of leadership more than any job title ever could," writes @hannahmhoward for How To Be Human.

"It has taught me to make decisions with incomplete information. To stay steady while someone else melts down. To adjust, and adjust again. To think in both the next five minutes and the next five years. To care deeply without believing I can control the outcome. That last part might be the hardest and most useful lesson of all."

When her 4-year-old woke up with a barking cough on a day that she was supposed to work, she had to re-arrange the day, again, as always.

How does this relate to leadership?

"Once upon a time, I thought leadership meant being exceptional. I pictured achievement. Recognition. A woman in a beautiful blazer walking onto a stage with great hair, a Steve Jobs mic, and impeccable boundaries. I thought leadership meant rising above the mess of ordinary life."

"Now I think leadership means tending to what has been entrusted to you. Children. Communities. Ideas. Friendships. Teams. Drafts. Clients. The small rituals that help people feel safe enough to grow."

Leadership, by definition, means to take care of and tend to other people.

"To be in charge of other people means relinquishing the myth of heroic individualism."

"The idea that all of my time is luxuriously my own? That’s only true if I’m truly alone."

Read the full piece on @substack at newsletter.sarahkpeck.com — link in bio.

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The one thing your food photos might be missing?

You. 🙋‍♀️

Here’s the thing about the ‘Human Element’… those hands reaching in, pouring, cutting, or grabbing a fork full of cake… it’s what turns a stale and sterile food scene into something alive and in the moment. A visual story that your reader or viewer can actually envision stepping into. 🙌🏻

🕵🏻‍♀️ If you’re curious about how to incorporate the Human Element into your food photography work, level up your iPhone or DSLR camera skills, and capture the light to highlight your latest recipe plating… I’ve got a workshop for that!

📌 Join @shuttershelly @ofbatteranddough and myself as we help you build your own Visual Language for Food Writers, on July 24th from 12-1:30pm (EDT) via The Food Writers Business Lab.

Link 👉🏻 https://write-up.circle.so/c/upcomingclasses-classes-b2970a

(I’ll also link the Sign-Up in my Bio!)

A two-part class with the first session coming up next week, we’ll dive into the fundamentals and share our expert tips for styling, camera settings, editing and more, plus a FREE Prop + Gear Visual Guide to help you gear up for your next shoot.

💌DM me with questions! This workshop is open for all levels and food photography students. We will meet you where you’re at and help you level up your food photography skills!

#foodwriters #foodiesofinstagram #foodphotographytips #foodphotographystyling #cookbookauthor

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Worrrddddsss. Kill me. #stevieunfinedunfiltered bookpublishing #writing #querytrenches

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