EDUCATION

 

1996  University of Virginia:  McIntire School of Commerce (minor Spanish language)

2003

the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health

:  Chef’s Training Program
     certified chef’s training program with classroom instruction in nutrition and health-supportive cooking.

 

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Charlottesville Earth Day Celebration 2008

:  Local Food Advocate

 

University of Virginia Women’s Club 2009  Keynote Address:  ‘Going Green with Local Food’

 

 

Master Gardeners' Lecture Series 2010

PUBLISHED WRITINGS

 

C-ville Weekly, Abode section (monthly)

           

     ‘Secret Ingredient’ and ‘Get This Gear’ columns

 (2008, 2009)
     'Find Yourself in Your Kitchen with Local Foods' column (2010)                     

'Edible Blue Ridge' quarterly magazine - contributing freelance writer       

     Winter 2009

:  ‘Hard Cider, Good Times’

           

     Spring 2009

:  ‘A Day on the Farm:  CaroMont Farmstead Chevre’  

 

           

     Summer 2009: 

‘The Vinegar Makers’ 

 

     Autumn 2009

:  ‘The Apple of Our Eye:  Albemarle Pippin’

WORKS IN PROGRESS

 

 ‘Adventures in Food and Drink in Central Virginia’

           

first person blog-narrative of personal and professional local food experiences

            www.alocalnotion.wordpress.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2004-2005

the CHOICE Project:  Manhattan, NY

     chef/instructor for federally funded nutrition study on cooking for a calcium rich, lowfat diet for post-menopausal women

 

Fall 2008

University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies

     ‘The Power of Food:  Nutrition, Food Policy and Local Food’

   

       

 

University of Virginia, International Residential College

‘Cooking and Eating Local Food’

                                 mixed format cooking and eating classes focusing on local food