About Food Loves Writing
- Photo Credit: Rebecca Brogan
Hi, I’m Shannalee, pictured above at the blog’s first birthday party in August 2009, which, for the record, was so much fun.
Food Loves Writing is my literary food blog—about food and about everything else. It began on a day in early August that was the nine-year anniversary of the day my grandma, the woman who taught me how to bake, passed away, and since then, it has become a place for discovery, for mistakes, for embracing every day I am given.
I also think it’s become a place she would have liked.
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Recognition, Press & Awards
- Featured at ReadyMade.com, 2/22/10.
- “[Shannalee's]..writing…is like a ripe peach at full blush — lush and irresistible. Part of Shannalee’s appeal is how intimate her voice is. Whether you are reading her blog for the first time or the fiftieth, the feeling is that she is confiding just to you a discovery or a family treasure…Oh, and her photographs? Let’s just say they leave me hungry and happy, too,”—Sarah McColl, Pink of Perfection, 1/21/10.
- Featured in “Best of the Blogs” roundup at Food News Journal, 2/17/10, 1/26/10, 1/13/10, 1/5/10 and 12/24/09.
- Guest post featured at The Kitchn, 12/14/09.
- “Not since Georgia O’Keefe has one woman made inanimate objects seem quite so sensuous and alive…She makes you feel like you’d just love to sit down over a plate of blueberry waffles and spill all your dirty details.” —Uptake.com and MatadorLife.com, 12/11/09.
- Photo featured in Travel + Leisure, December 2009.
- Food Loves Writing is contributing a chapter to the upcoming 55 Knives book, the “collaborative project from some of the web’s top food bloggers,” due out sometime near winter 2010.
- Bon Appetit invited Food Loves Writing to participate in its 2009 Blog Envy contest, November 2009. Featured photo and link to Oatmeal Chocolate-Chip Cookies.
- Shannalee was interviewed at Gapers Block Drive-Thru, September 2009.
- “She had me at dry sherry, but…plays upon both food and writing like sweet and savory … Her blog is delicate but piercing. A love of eating, cooking and writing converge in her blog, expressed with awareness of all things around her.” — Blog Nosh Magazine, 8/13/09.
- Shannalee was interviewed by DePaul University for alumni blog, 7/21/09.
- “Ever eloquent,” — blog of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 5/7/09.
- Best Food Writing: January 2009, Houston Foodie, 1/30/09.
- Showcased at FoodShots: Roasted Lemon-Garlic Green Beans in September 2009 and Apple Tart Cake in October 2009
