Today you’re in for a treat – no pun intended – because we spend time with Valerie Phillips, longtime food editor of the Standard-Examiner and Deseret News, and currently the proprietor of the Chew and Chat blog (chewandchat.com). Val’s written for all sorts of publications – stretching from Saudi Arabia to Tooele County – and once co-authored a book about Vietnam Veterans. Her cookbook, “Soup’s On!,” was published in 2012. Before that, she authored “Dining Through the Decades,” and she’s won a bunch of awards for her writing from various organizations, including the Society of Professional Journalists. You’ll learn, as we already knew, it takes a lot of hard work to be a fine food editor.
