Robin Cherry

Red Hook, NY USA
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Professional Experience

Hudson Valley-based travel and food writer and author of Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping. I blog at Garlic Escapes and I'm writing a book on the history of garlic. I've written about Seoul for lovers of food, design, shopping, theater, and the outdoors; a luxury lodge in Montenegro; women who make shea butter in Uganda, and rug-maker James Tufenkian's resurrection of the rug trade in Armenia. I'm especially fond of Eastern Europe and recently returned from Ukraine and Moldova.

Expertise

Book Author
3 Years
Writer
7 Years
Other, Specify
24 Years

Specialty

Food
6 Years
Lifestyle
6 Years
Travel
6 Years

Industries


Book Publishing Consumer
6 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
24 Years
Marketing (in-house) - Fortune 1000 corp. clients
24 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

24 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

The Atlantic (1-2), Islands (3-5), Afar (1-2), Ensemble Lifestyles (10+), Delta Sky (3-5), Valley Table (3-5)

Other Work History

I was a contributing editor for Lexus magazine for six years; I wrote the hotel column and frequent features. I worked in direct marketing for twenty years. I was VP at Book-of-the-Month Club and marketing director at Time Inc, Rodale, and Dow Jones.

Foreign Language Skills

Knowledge of Russian and French (working on the Russian, given up on the French)

Computer Skills

Word, Excel

Equipment

Laptop, Casio Digital Camera, new Verizon iPhone,

Associations

Author's Guild

Showcase

General

All the Sheikh's Horses
(The Atlantic 4/1/2010)
Article about the new Meydan race course in Dubai.
Haunts of New Orleans
(Delta Sky 10/1/2010)
Haunted Places in New Orleans plus London, Singapore, Savannah, Miami, and Chicago
Corn Meal
(Valley Table 12/1/2010)
Everything you ever wanted to know about corn meal