I began my career in Food and Travel Writing and Photography in 2001 and a global jaunt to more than 50 countries ensued and keeps ensuing. I have spent much of the new millennium getting lost in Latin America and Southeast Asia, while living semi-permanently in Lima, Peru and the US. At the moment I reside with my wife Claudia in New York City, on the very westernmost street in the very northwest corner of Brooklyn.

My work has taken me to the far flung corners of the planet for weeks and months at a time, searching for the little mysteries that seem to be slowly disappearing. The idea of food in a cultural context is and has been the focus of much of my career and the bulk of my writing and photography is aimed at this notion. Through numerous guidebooks and and articles I have become one of the authorities on the subject of food and travel in Latin America, though I do explore the rest of the globe on occasion.

Along the way I have attained a thorough understanding of the Spanish language, elementary French and Italian, and bits of Portuguese and Quechua. I hold a degree in journalism from the Ohio State University, certificates in web design, and have taken culinary classes in Thailand, India, and Peru.