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Beating the Gourmet Drum for Men’s Journal

August 3, 2009 in Food, Recipes, Stories, Travel by sarah | 6 comments

By resurrecting its cuisine, Chef Michael Dowd tries to preserve a tribe’s traditional way of life – Men’s Journal

Michael O’Dowd collects swords, races BMWs, and asks little old Indian ladies for their grandmothers’ recipes. As executive chef of Kai restaurant at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass resort outside Phoenix, O’Dowd takes Native American ingredients and marries them to haute techniques, pairing wild elk with tagliatelle, bathing sea urchins in a fondue of piquillo peppers, and infusing cotton candy with Amarillo chiles.

The original thru-hiker for Men’s Journal

July 13, 2009 in Stories, Travel by sarah | Comments closed

A new Smithsonian exhibit looks at environmentalist Earl Shaffer, the first man to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in one continuous trip — for Men’s Journal.

Honeymooning Alone for Brides Magazine

May 22, 2009 in Stories, Travel by sarah | Comments closed

Shanghai – Brides Magazine (p.1, p.2)

Big Island Beaches – Brides Magazine (p.1, p.2)

Great Escape: Cannes

May 11, 2009 in Stories, Travel by sarah | 1 comment

Raising the curtain on the Cannes International Film Festival for Men’s Journal.

This Year’s Appalachian Trail in Men’s Journal

April 14, 2009 in Stories, Travel by sarah | Comments closed

I broke my feet on the Appalachian Trail — both of them — but my trip paid off with a story or two.

Trail Dangers and Magic, story.

Map Page 1, Map Page 2

Tags: Appalachian Trail, Men's Journal

Mother’s Day with Everyday With Rachel Ray

April 13, 2009 in Stories, Travel by sarah | Comments closed

When not thinking about tea, I write magazine stories about travels with Mom.

To schnecken, a love letter

February 14, 2009 in Food, Recipes, Stories, Travel by sarah | Comments closed

Food is a vehicle for memory; it is our first encounter with metaphor. A favorite food, a special dish, can bring back a rush of details about people long gone. Meditations on a madeleine cookie can recreate an entire lost world. My great aunt-Lil died at age 98, and, though we could see it coming, it never occurred to us to write down her schnecken recipe. In the many years since, it has become a double blow–Aunt Lil is dead and we have lost the keys home.

–Plenty Magazine

Tags: Duluth, Food, Jewish, Memory. Recipes

Galapagos – 2005 Grand Prize in Writing, NATJA Awards

February 14, 2009 in Stories, Travel by sarah | Comments closed

Paradise Retained, 2005 NATJA award winning story examining conservation in the Galapagos Islands. — Plenty Magazine

In Galapagos, animals are rockstars. The fauna are friendlier than your neighbors. Sea lions stare directly into your mask while you snorkel with sea turtles, penguins, and giant manta rays. Later, while sunning on the beach, you may find that same sea lion has cuddled up beside you for a snooze. The birds, brilliantly and bizarrely festooned, are so close and so fearless they will sing right into your ear. There are rainbow-colored giant iguanas. And when you sail into the sunset, whales and dolphins frolic in your bow-waves. …To travel in Galapagos is to watch Darwin’s ideas take shape, as if one had sat down to watch Shakespeare write.