clips

A few things I’ve written recently:

** I report on the strange new twists the farm-share trend has been taking lately, in the April 16, 2012 issue of Time Magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2111228,00.html

** Peruvian chef Gaston Acurio gives tips on his favorite places around Lima, in my story for Time Magazine’s Spring 2012 Style and Design issue:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2108496_2108520_2109468,00.html

** A food-focused travel story about Egypt appears in the February 2012 issue of Food and Wine:

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/a-lesson-in-egyptian-food

**I’ve written a series of columns called Wandering Chef for the travel magazine AFAR, in which I interviewed great chefs about cities they visited recently and unearthed some crucial where-to-eat tips. In the spring 2012 issues, I interviewed chefs about Hong Kong, Valencia, and more…

**An essay I wrote about my year in Beirut appeared in the May 2011 issue of Forbes Life:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes-life-magazine/2011/0523/memoir-muslim-lebanon-arab-middle-east-home-beirut.html

** 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.

**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.” appeared 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

**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