About Love & Cookies is a weekly conversation about food and our relationship with our bodies. Every day we’re invited to connect more deeply to ourselves, one another, and the living world. There’s no more intimate means than through what and how we eat.

For 2026 I’ll be sharing seasonal recipes, meal ideas, ingredients I think you need to know about (along with wines and books), and whatever else happens to be on my heart each week. And because I want to share one of my greatest gifts as broadly as possible, practical tips for joyful healthy eating.

Have I always had a positive relationship with food? Ummm…it’s complicated…and why I’ve been writing a book for ten years. I sprinkled some backstory into my 2025 “Fix Your Food Relationship” posts which you’ll find in the archive. Thank you for subscribing and for being a part of my writing journey.

A little bit about me and where I’m coming from:

The French approach to food

I’ve always sensed a rightness to the French approach to food and its place in daily life, the sense of joy and connection it brings, to ourselves and one another. It’s part of my heritage.

The distraction of dieting and too-busy, too-much

Since childhood, I’ve loved cooking and baking but a crash diet in puberty set off a 25-year battle with my body. I enjoyed a successful career in software development, but something wasn’t right. My body sounded alarms with IBS, acne, and tears but I was too busy to pay attention.

I’m a chef, food writer, mentor, and lay facilitator of Intuitive Eating

My culinary training is a mix of professional pursuits in California and Provence, and a lifetime of being in the kitchen. I’m a certified wine professional from the Culinary Institute of America, St. Helena, and a certified lay facilitator of Intuitive Eating. My food writing, pen and ink illustrations, and recipes appear quarterly in Edible Bozeman, a publication I help create along with the publisher and a small team. Ripe Food & Wine continues to be a joyful pursuit as well as a practical cooking reference here at home.