Food
Writing
Terri
Pischoff
Wuerthner,
a
tenth-generation
Acadian,
is
an
award-winning
culinary
writer,
whose
work
has
appeared
in
dozens
of
newspapers
and
magazines,
including
Bon
Appétit,
Gastronomica,
and
the
Washington
Post.
She
is
the
coauthor
of
Food
for
Life:
The
Cancer
Prevention
Cookbook.
Wuerthner
worked
in
the
education
department
of
the
Culinary
Institute
of
America,
editing
and
writing
recipes
and
educational
materials.
She
is
a
member
of
the
International
Association
of
Culinary
Professionals
(from
which
she
received
the
distinction
of
Certified
Culinary
Professional
in
1994),
the
San
Francisco
Professional
Food
Society,
and
the
Sonoma
County
Culinary
Guild.
She
founded
the
Marin-Petaluma
Slow
Food
Convivium
in
2000,
and
was
the
convivium
leader
for
several
years.
She lives with her husband in the Sonoma County wine country, where she teaches cooking, writes food and travel articles for newspapers and magazines, and is working on her next cookbook.
Travel
Writing
Wuerthner’s
travel
articles
have
appeared
in
the
Washington
Post,
San
Francisco
Examiner,
Press
Democrat,
Savor,
and
on
the
CitiSearch
Website.
She
is
coauthor
of
Everyday
Favorites
of
Sonoma
County,
Highgain
Press,
1997.
A
specialist
in
northern
California
Travel,
she
often
focuses
on
food
and
wine
destinations
for
both
long
vacations
and
weekend
or
day
trips.
Awards
and
Honors
As
the
recipient
of
the
2001
Tyson
Foods
Fellowship
for
American
Home
Cooking,
Wuerthner
was
the
first
culinary
writer
to
receive
a
Fellowship
to
the
Writers’
Colony
at
Dairy
Hollow
in
Eureka
Springs,
Arkansas.
In 2004, Wuerthner was awarded the American Egg Board Fellowship for her (then) work-in-progress, In a Cajun Kitchen, to the Arkansas Writers Colony.
Wuerthner was one of twelve finalists, out of more than 130 chefs, in the American Lamb Professional Chef Recipe Contest.
Her
book,
In
A
Cajun
Kitchen,
is
available
(or
can
be
ordered)
wherever
books
are
sold,
or
ordered
from
any
of
the
online
sites
that
carry
books.
