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New Awards from the San Diego Press Club

Posted November 13th, 2011 by Caron. Comment (0).

The San Diego Press Club held its 38th annual journalism awards in October. I received three awards this year:
First place in the Magazine: Education category for my piece for Edible San Diego called “The Magic of Olivewood Gardens”
Second place in the Magazine: Food & Restaurant category for my piece for Edible San Diego called “Home [...]

I’m happy to say that my first story for Saveur Magazine has just been published. “Green Gold” is the featured “Source” piece and highlights the magnificent avocado oil produced in San Diego County by Cid da Silva under the name Bella Vado Avocado Oil. This has been a very long time coming and it’s so [...]

Time for a little bragging! Last night was the San Diego Press Club’s 37th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards–or J-Awards. It was a great enough evening seeing a wonderful turnout, despite the rain, and having all the guests enjoy the bounty of 15 restaurants and four local purveyors that I recruited and organized.
But, I also [...]

Check out the August 2010 issue of San Diego Magazine. It’s their Best of San Diego issue. Surprise! San Diego Foodstuff is included (on page 71) in their best  local bloggers round-up! I’m in good company with my friends Kirk of mmm-yoso, Katie Dillon of Lajollamom.com, and Angela Carone of CultureLust.
I’ll be joining San Diego [...]

What’s New? Lots!

Posted April 17th, 2010 by Caron. Comment (0).

It’s been frantic around here–all good stuff–but little time to pull rabbits out of hats in terms of writing on this page. But, I have some updates:

I’ll be on the KPBS radio show These Days on Tuesday, April 20 from 10 to 11 a.m. to talk about vegetarian food with chefs Trey Foshee and Deborah [...]

Four Awards From San Diego Press Club

Posted October 21st, 2009 by Caron. Comment (0).

Last night’s San Diego Press Club Journalism Awards has been on my mind for months now. I was on the organizing committee, tasked with rounding up restaurants for our dinner at the Hall of Champions. I hadn’t thought much about actually winning any awards, although I had certainly sent in entries and learned that I’d [...]