Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
When you have a restaurant with a name like The Roadkill Cafe, you might expect some people to take you seriously. Debbie Mejia and her husband Bruce watche...
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When you have a restaurant with a name like The Roadkill Cafe, you might expect some people to take you seriously. Debbie Mejia and her husband Bruce watche...
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The Legend of the White Dog By Heide Brandes Nelson King may never have opened his wildly popular restaurant White Dog Hill in Clinton, Oklahoma, if he had...
When Dylan Jennings, a member of the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe, was a child, he and his family loaded on canoes to prowl the waters of northern Wisconsin,...
By Heide Brandes The boats came at dawn along the shores of the town of Dangriga on the coast of Belize. Onboard, vibrantly dressed men, women and children...
LYNCHBURG, Tenn.- I’m not drunk, but I should be. Surrounded by millions of gallons of some of the world’s most famous Tennessee whiskey, I am as sober as a...
As the morning sun rose above the old cobblestone paths in Kaleici, Antalya — the old section of town in the Turkish city — I walked alongside the Roman Empe...
Getting Fresh With Chef Jonathan Stranger By Heide Brandes Jonathan Stranger talks about food the way most people talk about lost, secret treasure — his fi...
Herbs bring out the soul of summer cocktails. Heide Brandes August 3rd, 2011 At the Cheever’s Cafe bar, Ariana Khalilian pulled out the plastic squeeze cont...
By Heide Brandes The first time Afton Fisher tasted Irish whiskey, she said it “was like being kicked in the teeth by a donkey, but I liked it.” Peter Cran...