Welcome.

As a food writer with a decade of speaking directly with chefs, farmers, beverage folk, and food entrepreneurs, I pen stories about the heart and heft behind some of the most delicious food experiences available. As the producer of Service: Veteran Stories of Hunger & War, I connect veterans and civilians through sound-rich narratives of war and food stories. And as the author of The Me Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness, I share conversations with professionals in science, technology, psychology, movement, and the arts that help us to understand how shifting our habits and lightening our energetic load can lead to a more fulfilled and present daily lifestyle.

Honest conversation is at the heart of all of this work.

On this site, you’ll find extra bits of conversations, interview clips that didn’t make it into a piece, or a personal take on a conversation.

Thanks for stopping by, – Jacqueline

Interviews…

• Chef Danny Lledó Needs to Feed You
• Alon Shaya on Recovery… Again
• Chef Tony Mantuano – “I Want My Legacy to be Balance”
• Chef Niki Nakayama: Repeating and Refining
• A Target on Their Backs (Jonathan Zaragoza)
• Quoted: Chef Angela Garbacz
• Elise Kornack Got Out
• Quoted: Songwriter Robbie Gil
• What Sweets Make Pastry People the Happiest Possible Versions of Themselves?
• Lindsay Benner: The Artist and the Art
• Chef Sarah Kirnon Remembers Her Grandmother
• Interview Cut: Nicholas Morgenstern
• Cynthia Cherish Malaran: After Amnesia, A New Beginning.
• Scott Conant: Portraits and Plates
• Kierin Baldwin: “I’m a Diabetic Pastry Chef”
• Chef Miro Uskokovic: Coming Out With Crohn’s
• Chef Anthony Ricco: A Walk Down a Spicy Memory Market Lane
• Chef Roxanne Spruance: How Kingsley Makes It Work
• Michael Schwartz: How Human Advocacy Leads to Vegan Cheese
• Chef Paul Gerard: New York Before I Knew Ye
• Chef Brendan McHale: Big Cities, Little Rivers, and the Bounty of summer
• Joe and Misses Doe: On Media Versus Reality
• Chef Sohui Kim: Gratuity Included
• Chef Angie Mar: We Are All Commis
• Chef Marcus Samuelsson: Providing a Platform
• Chef Floyd Cardoz: Returns with Paowalla
• Chef Diane Yang: The Giving of Chicken – a Hmong Tradition
• Chef Alex Chang: The Prizes and Pitfalls of Youth
• Chef Ryan Roadhouse: A Sense of Adventure with Japanese Kaiseki
• Chef Chris Cheung: On the State of Chinese Cuisine in New York City
• Chef Alex Guarnaschelli: On Family, Nostalgia, and Making it Personal
• Chef Uri Navon: Childhood Memories and Wished for the Future
• Chef Norman Nimrod: Defining Israeli Cuisine
• Jimmy Bannos Sr.: Heaven on Seven – it was a Joint
• Sarah Simmons: On Producing Female Talent
• Lidia Bastianich: Is It Hard to be a Woman in the Kitchen?
• Chef Alon Shaya: Gets Deeply Personal With His Latest Restaurant, Shaya
• Chef Jacques Torres: On Craftsmanship
• Chef Marco Canora: A Timely and Timeless Conversation
• Chef Ned Eliot: On Moving Food and Food Journalism Forward
• Chef Amanda Cohen: Keeping it Real(ly Delicious)
• Chef Carmen Quagliata: of Union Square Cafe on a Sunday Sauce for Sandy
• Chef Daniel Holzman: of the Meatball Shops with Gluten-Free Meatballs for Easy Eats Magazine
• Joseph Murphy, Jean-Georges; Slow and Steady, Uphill
• Chef Gavin Kaysen: I have Celiac Disease
• Marcia Polas; Confessions of a Celiac
• Chef Lynn Bound; Diners With Allergies, Chef Lynn Bound Takes You Seriously
• Bethany Costello, M. Wells Steakhouse
• Charlene Johnson-Hadley, American Table
• Ashley Brauze, Cafe Boulud
• Lauren DeSteno, Marea
• Marc Forgione, American Cut etc.
• Kierin Baldwin, The Dutch
• Ashley Merriman, The Waverly Inn
• Jody Williams, Buvette
• Ghaya Oliveira, Pastry chef at Daniel
• Lynn Bound and Tracy Wilson, Chef and Manager of the Cafes at MoMa
• Chef Ignacio Mattos, chef/partner of Estela
• Joseph Marazzo, owner of Virgola Wine Bar
• James Oseland, Editor-In-Chief, Saveur Magazine
• Chef Rozanne Gold on Losing Windows on the World, September 11, 2001
• Floyd Cardoz, North End Grill
• Gabrielle Hamilton, Prune
• Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park / The NoMad
• Stephen Collucci, Colicchio and Sons

In the Kitchen With Chef…

• Jason Dady at City Grit Culinary Salon
• Ryan Tate, All Good Things Restaurant
• Alex Stupak, the Empellon Push Project

Travel…

• The Romeria: A Pilgrimage of Faith on Sao Miguel
• Chef Uri Navon: Childhood Memories and Wished for the Future
• The Azores: Feasting, Family and Furnas
• Chef Norman Nimrod: Defining Israeli Cuisine
• Chef Floyd Cardoz Returns to India
• Morning in the Market: Ponta Delgada
• On My Father’s Island, Part One
• C Words: Cronut, Cincinnati, Connections

Reviews…

• Cafe Altro Paradiso’s 2018 Bake Sale for Planned Parenthood
• What She Ate by Laura Shapiro
• The Artist and Writer’s Cookbook
• At Belle Reve: Chef Paul Gerard Under-Promises and Over-Delivers
• Eat Here, Now! Shane Lyons Debuts his Chef’s Counter at Distilled
• George Mendes, MY PORTUGAL
• Johnny Iuzzini, SUGAR RUSH
• Jamie Bissonnette, THE NEW CHARCUTERIE  COOKBOOK
• Einat Admony, BALABOOSTA
• April Bloomfield, A GIRL AND HER PIG

Other…

• 13 Ways to Disconnect from Technology with Cyborg Anthropologist Amber Case
• In Memoriam – My Nana’s Words
• Private Chef Confessions
• The Case for Gluten-Free Beer
• How Do You Make a Living Writing?
• #MarchingWithMe – Advocating for Chronic Illness
• My Poppa — My Veteran — Turns Ninety Today
• My 40-Day Social Media and Dating App Fast
• What Can We Learn from “Other People’s Food”?
• Survey: Women, Illness, Weight Loss or Gain, and Body Image Issues
• Consumed: GMOs Haunt in a New Thriller
• Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial
• Fwd.US: on Immigration Reform and the Immigrant Contribution to the NY Dining Scene
• Gotham on a Plate: What New Yorkers Are Eating Today, Tomorrow, Together
• The Harlem Hospitality and Culinary Conference, 2015
• I’m A (Food) Writer with (Food) Issues
• Confessions of a Celiac: What Marcia Polas Wants May Shock You
• Diners with Allergies: Lynn Bound Takes You Seriously
• 5 Life Lessons from my Ending We Chat With Column
• The Melting Pot of New York Kitchens, Straight from the Chef’s Mouths

Headshots by Chris Sandas, Hanna Agar, and Amanda Crommett.

Most chef and plate shots taken and copyrighted by Brent Herrig of NYC Food Photography