The Writer
My name is Erin and I am 33 years old, married to a wonderful man named Phil (who is responsible for 99% of the photography on this site), and mother to an 80lb dog. We recently moved back home to my beloved Seattle after four years living in the Hamptons of eastern Long Island, New York, to live in Sonoma County, California. I am currently the Food Editor, Team Leader and a columnist for Mutineer Magazine. I am passionate about the culinary world and want to discover as much about it as humanly possible during my lifetime. I move frequently, so discovering the local food scene is a big part of normalizing our lives.
My goal through this site is to not only share my recipes, my city and my experiences with you, but to act as a voice for the exciting food revolution that is taking part in the United States today. I hope to play a role in building our food culture through recipes, while toasting food producers that put their heart and soul into their craft. I want to shed a positive light on American food instead of focusing on our shortfalls, which is the easy route to take. Negativity does nothing but breed negativity and we aren’t going to change the face of American cuisine by whining.
I do want it known that I am not perfect and have no intention of getting pious on you. While I encourage buying locally and even organic, I realise that cash flow is a factor for many people and often times the products we would like to buy are beyond our means. Frankly, I just want to encourage people to cook real food and to ask questions. If enough of us ask questions the more likely we will enrich our food culture.
The Photographer
This website started out as my website. But, over time through love, encouragement and not to mention photography it has developed into our website. So I figured it was high time to tell you a little bit about my partner in crime.
My husband Phil is first and foremost a Chief Petty Officer in the Coast Guard, specializing in IT. His interests however range far beyond that sphere to photography, woodworking, punk music, whiskey and the sciences. He is also attending school and is contemplating a degree in physics. Phil’s work can currently be seen here on The Endive Chronicles as well as in my column in Mutineer Magazine and his photography blog Food Aperture.
I am a culinary enigma, cloaked in a velvety beurre blanc and tucked away in a vol au vent of confusion.
