A few things I’ve written recently:
**An essay I wrote about my year in Beirut so far appears in the May 2011 issue of Forbes Life:
** I co-wrote and helped produce the new cookbook from Glamour magazine, titled 100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know, and published by Hyperion in April 2011.
**I write a regular column called Wandering Chef for the travel magazine AFAR, winner of the 2010 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for Best Travel Magazine. In every issue I interview a great chef about a city he or she visited recently, and unearth some crucial where-to-eat tips.
**My story “Wines for Drinking, Not Overthinking,” which originally ran in Food & Wine, appears in Best Food Writing 2010, published in October 2010 by Da Capo Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Food-Writing-Holly-Hughes/dp/0738213810
**My essay on “The Rise of Restaurant A.D.D.” appears in Food & Wine’s July 2010 issue:
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/the-rise-of-restaurant-add
**My story about the Houston food scene ran in the New York Times on Feb. 7, 2010:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/travel/07choice.html?em
**I wrote up some of my favorite spots in Nashville in the March 2010 issue of Travel + Leisure:
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/hot-venues-of-nashville/1
**What’s the bacon of wine? And what’s the White Castle burger of wine? And why can’t we chill out and talk about wine as easily and happily as we talk about food? From the October 2009 issue of Food & Wine:
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/wines-for-drinking-not-overthinking
**I spent part of my childhood in Beirut, and I love it to death—but it’s a mess. Dubai, on the other hand, is not a mess—and therein lies the problem. Here’s a short essay I wrote musing on this contrast for The Economist’s culture site, MoreIntelligentLife.com, in August 2009:
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/salma-abdelnour/beiruts-triumphant-mess
**I rode horses, I shot guns, I ate incredibly well, and I did some stargazing, deep in the heart of Texas:
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/cowboy-junkie
**I include the following piece here mainly because reporting it inspired me—or pretty much forced me—to cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner by myself, in July (while the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, was in production). I fed the midsummer turkey dinner to my brother, who was visiting from California. I may do it again someday—just never again in July.
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200811_omag_thanksgiving_story