About Cooked/Uncooked

About Me:

I’ve been a writer and journalist for over 25 years, but started focusing on food, wine, and cooking for the last three. It’s gone from a hobby, to now something I’d like to make a career in my “third act.” I write a weekly series for the Denver alt-weekly Westword called Eat Up Havana, where I dine at and profile every restaurant along the highly diverse stretch of Havana Street in Aurora Colorado. In addition to other Westword stories, I also write restaurant profiles for Dining Out Denver, occasionally contribute to 5280 magazine, and am slowly finding my footing freelancing for national outlets. At 53, I graduated culinary school and obtained my WSET level 2 wine certification, which I use to help teach classes at Denver-area cooking schools and for friends.

About the Newsletter:

Cooked/Uncooked is a collection of dispatches from the front lines of my food/wine writing and other culinary adventures and discoveries. Not every story I pitch gets accepted, so those ideas will find a home here, along with behind-the-scenes insights, article outtakes, and other tidbits from the stories I do get to write and places I get to go. That may include the occasional menu suggestion, recipe, or a deep dive into an ingredient or technique. If I’m lucky… maybe a rant or a rave here and there.

Cooked/Uncooked is published freely for now until I get it together to put out something worth charging for. No ads. No SEO BS. Just useful dispatches meant to inform, inspire and entertain.