Education
She attended Valhalla High School in El Cajon.
She attended Valhalla High School in El Cajon.
She is the former assistant editor of Appellation Wine Country Living and Sun Valley Magazine. Her food writing has been influenced by Waverly Root.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 1995, after which she worked for the University of California, first at her alma mater, then at University of California, San Diego, where she was a science writer for the San Diego Supercomputer Center.