I am a writer and editor currently living in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, the 13th place I’ve called home. In my day job, I am associate editor of Current History, the nation’s oldest foreign affairs journal. In the rest of my work life, I’ve ranged widely. I’ve written and edited for lots of legal publications over the years, putting my Columbia University J.D. to use. I delved into American history with a biography of Charles Fletcher Lummis, a heroic but eccentric Indian rights gadfly who lived in Los Angeles and the Southwest from the 1880s until his death in the 1920s. I followed that with a couple of self-published culinary histories. Since the 1990s, I’ve had websites about farmers markets, the local food movement and urban agriculture. As a freelance writer, I’ve contributed to dozens of newspapers and magazines, ranging from the Atlantic, the New Republic and the Wall Street Journal to the Los Angeles Times travel section and Sawasdee, the Thai International Airlines inflight magazine.
For more about me, follow the links on this page to my web sites, book blogs, a few photos, and links to a selection of pieces I have published over the years.
My Web Sites
Charles Lummis: A web site about my biography of a crusading journalist, author and editor who lived in Southern California and the Southwest from the 1880s until his death in the 1920s.
Vintage California Cuisine: A blog where I report on my experiments with early California recipes.
Vintage Vegetarian Cuisine: A blog where I report on my experiments with early vegetarian recipes.
My Email Address
mark@seasonalchef.com
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My Books
American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
Vintage California Cuisine: 300 Recipes from the First Cookbooks Published in the Golden State
Vintage Vegetarian Cuisine: Early Advocates of a Vegetable Diet and Some of Their Recipes, 1699 to 1935