Burwell General Store: About

It's a funhouse mirror, I promise.

That's me, Christianna. Chris, if you know me well. I have been blogging since I was 11 years old. It was called "keeping a journal" then.

At some point, I got into food, roughly when my mother enrolled me in a vegetarian cooking class in 7th grade. I wasn't a vegetarian.

I also do a lot of yoga.

Then, I undo the yoga by wearing high heels everywhere. This curious cycle is known as "living in Cali."

I like building communities. Please check out the Recipe Swaps and Story Swap pages in the links above.

At the moment, I wouldn't trade living in Los Angeles for anywhere else in the world. To see a slice of it through my iPhone, check out my other blog, Mattress In The Number Four Lane. It's pretty rad.

But wait, there's more. I'm actually a Plains girl at heart.

The old library, 1914.

I lived in Burwell, Nebraska, population 1,100, until I was nine. My father owned local antique media outlets known as "newspapers". In 2005, I bought the town's former Carnegie library at an auction and turned it into a recreational writer's retreat. I still consider the Sandhills of Nebraska home. Right now, I only get back once a year.

And finally, I'm a writer and online and television producer by trade. Mostly in food. Always in fun. I have produced many projects for Food Network and Cooking Channel, and have written for Saveur, Specialty Food Magazine, The Reader, Blackboard Eats and KCET, to name a few.

Working girl.

Random bits: The smallest town I have lived in was Taylor, Nebraska, population 186. The largest, New York City. The weirdest, Dubai. The most predictable, Omaha.

All the photos and words on this blog are mine unless attributed. Please ask before taking, as any well-trained Kindergartener would do.

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