About Jennifer Brizzi

Food-Related

Jennifer Harington Brizzi is a writer and editor whose favorite topics are eating and cooking. She is working on a cookbook on seafood soups and stews and writes food articles for magazines such as Edible Hudson Valley and FACES.

Since 1997 she has written columns that include "Jenny’s Food Focus" for the Hudson River Sampler, "Good Food" for Taconic Press Weekend, and since 2003 "Ravenous" for Ulster Publishing, which publishes The Woodstock Times and other weeklies in New York's Hudson Valley. Currently she writes about food for their arts supplement, Almanac Weekly, and her articles appear on the website dinehudsonvalley.com.

In scholarship competitions for the annual Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers, Brizzi received a Special Mention in 2007 and three in 2008. She has done cookbook recipe development and has worked for caterers and restaurants. She gives cooking demonstrations at fairs, festivals and farmers markets and has done freelance editing for the Culinary Institute of America.

Everything Else

Brizzi grew up in Vermont and has lived in Rhode Island, Brooklyn, and most recently Rhinebeck, New York, for the past 13 years. She has traveled widely in the U.S. and abroad and writes about travel topics that include food-centered travel and traveling with children. For two years she was editor of the Hudson Valley Guide for Taconic Press, as well as the newspaper group's specialty publications that included regional tourism along with health, bridal and automotive supplements. She has also served as a co-editor for Global Writes, the online magazine of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association.

Brizzi worked as a Licensed Practical Nurse for 11 years, mostly specializing in pediatrics, and has been a writer and editor on health topics. She is also the mother of two children adopted from Vietnam and Ethiopia and has published articles on parenting and adoption issues.

Brizzi is the daughter of the late novelist Donald Harington, and she has written three novels herself, with two more in progress.