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My Culinary Writing Career
Speaker: Nevin Martell
Silver Spring, Maryland
Via Zoom (Members will receive a link and passcode.)
BIO
Nevin Martell is a D.C.-area based independent writer-photographer focusing on food, foraging, and travel, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Bloomberg, BBC, The Daily Beast, AARP, Men’s Journal, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, Runner’s World, Michelin Guide, Eater, Washingtonian, Washington City Paper, and many other publications.
He is the author of eight books, including Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold-Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery, The Founding Farmers Cookbook: 100 Recipes for True Food & Drink, It’s So Good: 100 Real Food Recipes for Kids, and the travelogue-memoir Freak Show Without a Tent: Swimming with Piranhas, Getting Stoned in Fiji and Other Family Vacations. His ninth book, How to Eat Foraged Foods without Dying, will be published by Storey Publishing in the spring of 2027.
Nevin has appeared on the hit Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil, NPR, The Frommer’s Travel Show, Expedia’s Out Travel the System, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Bookman’s Corner, Chatter On Books, and The Moveable Feast’ He also starred in a beer commercial. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the highly successful “New Kitchens On The Block” event series.
TALK DESCRIPTION
Nevin says, “Born the son of a restaurateur who loved to drag his family around the world on food-focused adventures and a mother who was a talented home cook, my love of all things culinary was baked in from the get-go. A passionate reader and devoted travel diarist, I always knew I wanted to be a writer, though I wasn’t sure what form my career would take.
“I worked for my high school newspaper and served as the arts and entertainment editor of “The Miscellany News,” the student newspaper at Vassar College, before becoming a freelance music journalist in New York. Life had to take a few more turns and more than a decade passed before I turned my focus to food once I was living in D.C. My first story appeared in The Washington Post Express in 2010, a little piece about mobile barbecues parked in gas station parking lots. From there, I built up a portfolio, eventually writing for major publications I’m currently at work on my fifth, which hasn’t been announced yet, but I’ll offer a sneak peek of the concept.”