Feature Writing

Diabetic Living

Research suggests that when it comes to diabetes, two types of bacteria that live in your gut play key roles.

Diabetic Living

Appealing a claim denial isn’t hard–and preventing the denial in the first place is even easier.

Diabetic Living

In the heart of coal country, one medical center is taking the phrase “food as medicine” literally.

WebMD

(I wrote the entire package: 10 articles, 13,000 words)

Sixty years ago, The Jetsons imagined that in the future, we’d be eating meals in pill form. That hasn’t come to pass – yet. So what (and how) do experts think we’ll be eating 30, 40, 50 years from now?

Epicurious

My weekly column for the site’s “Small Plates” vertical, aimed at busy parents. It features five weeknight dinner menus of kid-friendly dishes, including recipes, time-saving tips, and creative ways to repurpose leftovers.

Parents

Though most parents know that catching something like molluscum, ringworm, or scabies has nothing to do with the cleanliness of their house or their kids, they still feel embarrassed. And unfortunately, that self-consciousness can be a powerful silencer that gives germs time to infect others.

Romper

As a doctor and the mom of two young boys, Grace Farris was busy enough. But she’d always drawn for fun, and eventually her illustrator’s eye turned to sketching vignettes of daily life with two children under 5. In 2017, she began to share her comics with friends as @coupdegracefarris on Instagram. You can probably guess what happened next:

Cooking Light

Some of these have a kernel of truth, and others are completely made up. We take a look, and bring the science.

Eating Well

While it’s easy to make a visit to your local farmers’ market more of a social event than a shopping trip (no judgment!), these expert tips from farmers and market managers at three of the country’s top spots will help you navigate it like a pro.

Washington Post

It has taken Dave Poorbaugh almost 10 years to get back to the 1740s. Maybe that’s because instead of a DeLorean, his time machine is the historic Annville Flouring Mill in Lebanon County, Pa., which he says is the oldest continually operating flour mill in the country. President of the company that owns the mill, Poorbaugh is a genial history buff who relishes telling tales of his own Colonial lineage. And with this summer’s harvest of 35 acres of heritage wheat, it looks as if he’ll finally taste the bread of his fore¬fathers.

Washington Post

This essay was selected for the Best Food Writing Anthology.

Food writers are lying to you. In our quest to inspire people to cook, we offer images of glorious plates of food, dramatically lit, propped with carefully-chosen cloth napkins and color-coordinated dishes, with the most adorable little trail of crumbs to suggest that someone’s actually eating this slice of perfection. My dinner plate never looks like that anywhere but the computer screen, on a really good day. In real life it’s chipped, with maybe some sauce spilling over an edge onto the crumpled paper napkin.