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| Roving Gastronome |
| Zora O’Neill has been in the kitchen since she was 3 and has the bacon-fat burns to prove it. She really taught herself to cook while getting her M.A. in Arabic literature at Indiana University in Bloomington. In fact, it was the most useful thing she learned in grad school. Since then, she has catered weddings, run an itinerant dinner party called Roving Gastronome, and worked the line in New York City restaurants. When she’s traveling, Zora can’t help but pay special attention to street carts, produce markets, and local culinary specialties. All of this fanaticism gets channeled into her guide books for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides, as well as her cooking when she’s back home in beautiful Astoria, Queens. Her travels, for work and otherwise, have taken her to London and Amsterdam, where she worked following graduation from Princeton, then to Cairo for advanced study at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) and on to Lebanon, Syria and Morocco. Other jaunts have covered Oslo, Paris, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba. She aspires to taste every flavor in the world, except maybe for balut. Email for a full resume. |
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