Subject: RE: Experienced Food Writer |
From: "Lisa Kamerad" <lkamerad@creativecommune.com> |
Date: 5/1/08, 17:49 |
To: "'Barrett Brown'" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Barrett,
I apologize for the delayed response this
afternoon. We’d love to have you take a crack at helping us. Please let me know
if you have a few minutes to chat via phone. I mentioned my tight timeline – Can
you work a bit tomorrow or this weekend? I’d like to get a round of copy into
the layout by Monday at the latest.
I can send a pdf of the layout in its
current state to discuss.
Let me know.
Thanks!
Lisa Kamerad
CREATIVE COMMUNE
773.244.9100
From: Barrett Brown
[mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:58
AM
To: Lisa Kamerad
Subject: Re: Experienced Food
Writer
Hi, Lisa-
I can sympathize; lackluster is totally out this season.
I don't have any deadlines coming up so I'd be free to handle this whenever.
Unfortunately, I'm actually based in New York, so I wouldn't be able to attend
a meeting, other than via phone. Let me know if that's okay; couldn't tell it
this is an off-site thing from the ad.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
512-560-2302
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Lisa Kamerad <lkamerad@creativecommune.com>
wrote:
Hi Barrett,
Thanks for your interest in our "gig". And thank
you for the samples. Our task is not to revise recipes, but to punch up catalog
copy for a spice and specialty food company called Urban Accents. I'm on a
tight deadline – staring at a semi-complete catalog layout with lack-luster
headlines, subheads and product descriptions. What is your availability to give
us a day or two of your expertise? And are you willing to stop by for a
meeting?
Please feel free to call me at the number listed below to
chat. The sooner the better.
Thank you,
Lisa Kamerad
CREATIVE COMMUNE
773.244.9100
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:22
AM
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Subject: Experienced Food Writer
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Howdy-
I understand that you're looking for someone to revise a series of recipes, and
I'd like to be considered. I've done food writing for a number of outlets
including AOL, The Onion A.V. Club, Chow
Baby, Austin Monthly, and others, and my other freelance work has
appeared in dozens of publications including humor mags like National Lampoon and McSweeneys.
I've pasted two recent samples below (probably not as quirky as you're looking
for, though). Please take a look and let me know if you'd like to discuss this
further.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Bonnell's
Fine Texas Cuisine
Some chefs aim to take
dishes and make them their own; Chef Jon Bonnell takes dishes and makes them
Texan. The menu at Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine is largely made up of items
that have been modified that they might better appeal to Texas dining sensibilities,
and which are conjured up from ingredients hailing almost exclusively from the
state and its shores. Among appetizers, the Texas Bruschetta makes good use of
avocado-pecan relish, tortilla chips, and fire roasted salsa in addition to the
more universal herbed goat cheese, while the Oysters Texasfeller proudly trace
their parentage to the Gulf of Mexico. Among the entrees, one finds such things
as the Buffalo Tenderloin - a pepper-encrusted buffalo filet that's pan-seared,
topped with whiskey cream sauce, and served alongside asparagus and truffled
pommes frites – and Elk Mini Tacos consisting of spicy elk meat served in corn
shells and supplemented by pico de gallo, queso fresco, and the utterly
improbable green chili cheese grits.
Craft
Like many great
restaurants, Craft operates under a menu dictated largely by the earth's tilt.
Whereas a visit on one particular month may find the diner confronted with
guinea hen galantine or Muscovy duck served in cherry sauce, another visit
could very well involve Nantucket Bay scallops with rhubard molasses or venison
saddle served in huckleberry sauce. Whatever the season, though, fresh
vegetables tend to play an unusually prominent role in most dishes – here, the
intrepid diner will find Jerusalem artichokes, Colorado arrowhead spinach, baby
bok choy, and shishito peppers along with a range of other, slightly less
exotic greens. Craft also offers the sort of brunches one might rightfully
expect from the sort of place that offers half a dozen varieties of oyster; the
roasted Scottish salmon with picked beet puree and frisee competes with the
humble biscuits and gravy for one's mid-morning attentions.
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