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Hi, welcome to my website. I'm a journalist, author, writing teacher, traveler, Italophile, and long-time San Franciscan. I'm a contributing editor at More magazine and write for a bunch of others, including Gourmet, the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, and Travel and Leisure. My last book, a travel memoir called An Italian Affair, was a New York Times bestseller. My previous book was an exposé of the diet industry called Losing It.

I work with several other San Francisco writers and filmmakers in a collective called the Grotto.

I'm pleased that I just won the 2008 International Association of Culinary Professionals Bert Greene Journalism Award for Essay Writing.

I also just won Field Report's online personal essay contest in my category, "Love and Hate," for "My Not So Funny Love Life." You can read it here.

Autographed copy

P.S. I am not a famous, sexy young Scottish actress by the same name--hate to disappoint you (it took me a while to figure out why I was getting so much fan mail all of a sudden from teenage guys).