In today's episode I speak with Jamie Schler, an award-winning writer specializing in food and culture.

Her stories are inspired by a multi-cultural family and 30 years living between France and Italy immersed in the culture.  We talk about cooking, food, chocolate, and how she does her research for newsletter writing and cookbooks!

Jamie writes the IACP award-winning food blog Life's a Feast which was named in the Top 100 Food Blogs by both The Institute for the Psychology of Eating and Inspired Magazine; her work has been published in Fine Cooking, The Washington Post, The Kitchn, France Magazine, The Art of Eating, Modern Farmer, Paste Magazine, Leite's Culinaria, deliberateLIFE, among others. She has written for Huffington Post Food since the page's creation in 2010; and she has been featured on Saveur.com, South Carolina Living, RDV des Arts Culinaires, in Elle Magazine France, Living France, and France magazine. She was a finalist for a Saveur Magazine Best Blog Award in the category Best Writing.