'My life has been blessed and plagued by two strong and strongly-related traits: instinctiveness and impatience.' Our Co-Founder amandahesser, via ManRepeller, takes us through her career and her journey with 'The Two I's':
in my one-bedroom apartment with its closet kitchen.
My instincts were correct—I got the pans apart, all right. But I almost killed myself in the process. Had the pans exploded a moment sooner, the heavy copper one would have hit me in the head. The headline would have been irresistible: “Food Writer Killed by Own Pan.” A few years later, during the late ‘70s oil crisis, when the car business was in a downward spiral, he saw what was coming well before his competitors who couldn’t conceive of a decline in the power of American cars, and started selling BMWs, a car no one in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had even heard of. When the economy shifted, Americans started buying imports, and my dad looked very smart.
And so I wrote a proposal and faxed—yes, faxed—a bunch of agents, and within months, I was a forthcoming author with a book contract.won the Best Literary Food Writing award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and is still in print more than 20 years later.I continued barreling forward anyway, pissing people off in new ways.
I continued barreling forward anyway, pissing people off in new ways. I moved to the magazine and became its food editor. I was good at coming up with ideas, but I had a hard time with writers who didn’t do what I’d envisioned, and I would often rewrite them rather than taking the time to work with them. When you’re a writer, you’re observing doers. When you’re an editor, you’re coaching the observers of the doers.
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