Sarah Kieffer never expected that a little baking trick she first tried in ninth grade—tapping the sheet pan in the oven during baking—would have a hand in her most well-loved recipe. From the Feb./March 2022 issue of Taste of Home.
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Make the best-ever smoked salmon bagel with help from John Cross Fisheries. Styled alongside Rachel Watson and Dave Weidner for the Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine Sept. 2018 issue.
While editor of Taste of Home, I had the privilege to guide the team serving up an ongoing supply of original food and lifestyle material for the flagship (6 issues/year) and special interest magazines (30+ issues/year). This content fueled passion and trust for an iconic, one-of-a-kind brand among an audience of 2.2 million readers.
I hopped in a Jeep with Taste of Home photographer Jim Wieland and set stylist DeeDee Jacq on a fall adventure deep in Wisconsin’s cranberry country. From the Taste of Home September/October 2015 issue.
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Ah, a juicy team brainstorm. Even more invigorating and refreshing than a summer thunderstorm! Headline and display copy jam-sessions are at their very best when edit and art teams discover language that fits together like a puzzle and makes the reader feel your intent. Here’s one of my favorites from my time as editor at Taste of Home. First published in the Summer 2018 issue.
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Irresistible discoveries Traverse Magazine Food & Drink Editor Tim Tebeau and I made across the great north, including a pistachio baklava we drove hours to get. From the Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine March 2019 issue.
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On a hot Lake Huron night, a gutsy 20-year-old set out to create a meat marvel unlike any the world had ever seen. First published in Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine, August 2007.
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I dialed in this recipe using 99% grown- or made-in-Michigan ingredients over a course of several nights. My husband Andy taste-tested. To balance all that glorious Pinconning cheese, I roasted broccoli on the side. Every bite of this crispy, melty dish sings of the land it comes from: the good ol’ mitten state. First published in Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine November 2018 issue, just in time for Thanksgiving.
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While I was editor at Taste of Home, we recruited staffers to share their mom’s recipes for a Mother’s Day themed feature. Without consulting each other, these guys all raved out their mom’s famous chicken. Rather than choose one, we leaned into it, and made four moms very proud. First published in the April/May 2018 issue.
Mollie’s humor, grace and immediacy make her a dear kitchen confidant, and her very personal collection of recipes is the kind you can snuggle in with and read like a novel. From the July 2010 Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine.
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