Food Wine Travel
An editor with extensive experience at national lifestyle magazines. With an eye for the stylish, a palate for the delicious and a nose for the newsworthy, Monica expertly produced stories for Food & Wine, Bridal Guide and Our Place magazines and websites for several years. Also produced taste test columns for Organic Style magazine and for Food & Wine magazine as well as feature stories on topics ranging from kitchen equipment, chef's favorite kitchen tools, tabletop trends, innovative home re-designs and learning how to relax.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Magazine, New York, NY September 2008-March 2009
Editorial Brand Manager Responsible for helping to craft the content of the launch issue. Helped to define what columns were, and produced and wrote several columns and stories for each issue.
Bridal Guide Magazine, New York, NY June 2004-July 2008
Home Design Editor
• Responsible for the editorial content of the home section, including tabletop stories,
decorating stories, product registration stories and some designer profiles.
• Responsible for coming up with the concepts and styling stories at photo shoots.
• Choosing photographers and locations, sketching out shots and finding and securing products and props.
• Covering all the home-related markets, traveling to trade shows around the country
• Overseeing and helping conceive FOB story ideas with Assistant Home Editor, as well as suggesting many products for these pages.
• Writing and line editing all copy for the feature stories.
• Edit copy and supervise Assistant Home Design Editor and direct interns.
Food & Wine Magazine, New York, NY April 1991-April 2003
Market Editor, 2001-2003
• Covered kitchen equipment and food markets traveling to new product conventions all over the country to seek out trends and great products to report first.
• Produced and wrote all story types including feature cover pieces like Easy Italian Entertaining (April 2003) and trend pieces like “Taste of things to come” (May 2001).
• Produced and wrote Kitchens column, interviewing curators like MOMA’s Design Curator Paola Antonelli (March 2002), architects like Michael Graves (November 2001) and chefs like Rick Bayless (July 2002).
• Found and wrote kitchen renovation stories like Bobby Flay’s kitchen (July 2003).
• Supervised and directed interns and editorial assistants with projects I conceived.
Contributing Editor at Food & Wine, 1997-2001
• Produced and wrote monthly Cooking column, covering tableware, cookware, gadgets,
appliances, trends, cookbooks and restaurant news.
• Produced F&W’s Best New Chef story for five years: from August 1996 issue to July 2000; interviewing hundreds of restaurant critics and chefs and with other editors traveled and tasted to find ten winners each year.
•Helped produce and write new products stories finding and testing gadgets, appliances, food products and food related beauty products.
New Products Reporter at Food & Wine, 1991-1997
• Produced “What’s New” products column; testing and writing about appliances, tableware, cookbooks, gadgets and food products.
• Compiled and wrote monthly calendar of food related events.
• In charge of Reader’s Service, researching and responding to reader’s questions.
SELECTED PUBLISHED FREELANCE WRITING
• The Spectator A Real Guitar Hero: David Lane teaches and inspires with AR music camp
August 20th, 2009 and The Not-So-Secret Garden: Karsdale gardener goes public with
weekend workshops August 28th, 2009
• Chronicle Herald newspaper A Personal, Spiritual Journey: My trip to Jerusalem July 4th,
2009
• CargoMagazine Gift Guide: Smart Kitchen tools, Dec-Jan 2005-2006
• Cargo Magazine Gift Guide: New kitchen gadgets for men, Dec-Jan 2004-2005
• Organic Style Magazine Taste Test columns- 2003-2005 Pizza (Sept), Soup (Nov)
Gift Guide (Dec), Snack Food Jan-Feb), Frozen Entree (March), Pasta Sauce (April), Cookie (June), Beer (July), Cereal (Nov), Chocolate (Feb), Sodas (March), Baking Mixes (Sept), Candy (October) plus feature interior design story “Warehouse to Their House” (November)
• Town & Country “Cozy in Quebec” Quintessence; new boutique hotel review, Nov 2004
• Our Place MagazineContributing Culinary & Lifestyle Editor, “Life’s A Beach”, Spring 2005
and "Game Plan for Football Fun", Fall 2004, “A Taste of the Exotic” Spring 2006, “Into The
Woods” plus FOB Black & White Decorative trend story and upscale dog product story Fall 2006
• Hamptons Family Life Magazine restaurant reviews, June/July, Sept/Oct 2004
• Specialty Food Magazine Food & Housewares 8-page profiles story, March 2004
• Home Magazine "Revolutionary Washers and Dryers", March 2004, Countertop Materials April 2004, “In Good Taste” kitchen renovation feature, Nov 2004
• TimeOut NY Chicago’s Vosges chocolate shop opens in N. Y. July 14, 2003
• The New York Sun Feature stories on architect David Ling’s ideas for the perfect kitchen,
July, 31st,2003, interior designer Claire Baldwin’s chic baby gear picks, January 15, 2004
Fanciulla Foods Co. owner profile, Feb 25, 2004
• Christophorus(Porsche’s Magazine) Feature on Plaza Hotel Chef BrunoTison, Jan 2003
• Menu Magazine Contributed stories like “Chefs who produce food products”, May 2001
• Projecttruffle.comWrote a monthly website column “Artisan Digest” assessing food trends in food publications, 2000
• Body & Soul Magazine “The Healthy Kitchen” -equipment to stock a kitchen where good for you food comes from, 2000
MEDIA APPEARANCES
• NY1 Home report with Jill Scott, New finds at the Housewares Show, Feb 18th 2003
• The Good Life with Pierre Wolf, radio Interview on KLMO of Vail, CO, June 2000
• NY1 Home report Innovative Barbeque tools, May 1999
• Liz Maita WCRC radio 1450AM “Best New Chefs; How does F & W find them? May 1998
• In Food today on TVFood Network “How to choose a food processor”, July 1997
EDUCATION
MediaBistro New York, NY creating Digital video workshop Fall 2009
Parson’s School of Design New York, NY -BFA
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia Printmaking/photography
International Center of Photography, New York, NY B & W photography class
Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada literature and writing
Fluent in French
