Projects

Sarah Kieffer never expected that a little baking trick she first tried in ninth grade—tapping the sheet pan in the...

Make the best-ever smoked salmon bagel with help from John Cross Fisheries. Styled alongside Rachel Watson and Dave Weidner for...

Quirky, quiet and exquisitely beautiful, Michigan's out-of-the-way oasis on the shore of Lake Superior has it all. From the August...

While editor of Taste of Home, I had the privilege to guide the team serving up an ongoing supply of...

I hopped in a Jeep with Taste of Home photographer Jim Wieland and set stylist DeeDee Jacq on a fall...

Ah, a juicy team brainstorm. Even more invigorating and refreshing than a summer thunderstorm! Headline and display copy jam-sessions are...

Irresistible discoveries Traverse Magazine Food & Drink Editor Tim Tebeau and I made across the great north, including a pistachio...

On a hot Lake Huron night, a gutsy 20-year-old set out to create a meat marvel unlike any the world...

Oh, what fun it is to go on assignments like these. Profile of forester and Christmas tree farmer Keith Martell...

I dialed in this recipe using 99% grown- or made-in-Michigan ingredients over a course of several nights. My husband Andy...

Milwaukee is hog heaven in this travel piece I reported for AAA Living magazine.

While I was editor at Taste of Home, we recruited staffers to share their mom's recipes for a Mother's Day...

Mollie's humor, grace and immediacy make her a dear kitchen confidant, and her very personal collection of recipes is the...

The final page of a magazine is special...I always think of it as your last impression or a kiss goodnight....

Once or twice a year the word nerds working on the flagship magazine at Taste of Home allowed ourselves a...

Come away to the western edge of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to a faraway land of tremendous pines, abandoned mines and...

The only thing better than phenomenal barbecue is phenomenal barbecue smoked and served up by the kind human beings at...

Coworker Lynda Twardowski Wheatley invited her fellow Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine staffers for supper and served kielbasa and her grandmother's...

A poem by young James Earl Jones inspired this collection of bright and luscious citrus recipes. I teamed up with...

Sensational summer sides to pair with the humble hot dog. We pooled our talents and made it a real potluck...