About the writer

an obsession with cookware

After various stints in corporate administration and arts management, I happily drugged myself with food, drink, and vibrant personalities on the way to graduate school. I’m studying library science and work at an artist studio. I also write for Serious Eats: New York on occasion: I write a weekly coffee column and created the Learn It, Don’t Burn It educational series and am always open to attending a cooking class, lecture, workshop, tasting, you name it. Infamously I wrote an extensive five-part series on Serious Eats investigating the Starbucks internal coffee college at HQ in Seattle. These days I’m aware a world with sugar and fat is what my Italian bone structure and Sicilian skin will have to deal with for as long as my little heart keeps beating. Hello: I’m Allison Hemler, and I live for and with food. If you don’t believe me, ask any of my ex-boyfriends. They all got fat when I started dating them.

You can reach me at ahemler (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m happy to hear from you.