About In Season

Denise Matychowiak

Denise has worked as a chef in fine restaurants and homes in New York City and is author, with John Zmirak, of A Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living: A Loving Look at the Lighter Side of the Catholic Faith with Recipes for Feasts and Fun (Crossroad Publishing, New York, 2005).

Joanne Seiff

Joanne is a freelance writer, knitwear designer and educator in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her favorite non-fiction topics include organic food and farming, conservation, and fiber arts. Joanne enjoys making things from scratch: gardening, cooking, canning, baking, and wearing sweaters from wool she’s spun, dyed and knit, preferably from a sheep she knows.

Jill Slater

Jill, who has a background in city planning, recently reverted to her original coast--the east one--after a decade of living and learning about good eating and good living in San Francisco. She has found a way to compost in a New York City apartment.

Victoria Slind-Flor

Victoria is a journalist who lives in Oakland, California, where she successfully raises lemons, limes, pears and potatoes in containers on her patio. She's the former food editor, restaurant critic, and wine writer for a New Orleans newspaper and particularly loves writing about and cooking from her Norwegian heritage. Her blog, Driving Audhumla, covers her travels, art-making and other adventures.

Mark Thompson

Mark, the publisher of this Web site, is an avid urban-backyard farmer, whose interest in farming remained intact even after a high school summer of hard labor on a tobacco and cattle farm outside of his hometown, Paris, Kentucky, and even after an ordeal of a different, much worse sort: law school. Mark was so ill-suited for a career in law that he never bothered to take a bar exam. He pursued a career in journalism, instead, during which he has covered a wide array of topics, from genetic fingerprinting for The New Republic to paddlewheel steamers in Bangladesh for the Thai International Airlines inflight magazine. These days, in addition to writing for Seasonal Chef about seasonal produce and farmers markets, he is a freelance journalist in Los Angeles and author of an award-winning biography, American Character, of an eccentric journalist and Indian rights activist named Charles Fletcher Lummis, who lived in the American Southwest from the 1880s until his death in 1928.

Seasonal Chef is an online successor to Farmers Market Monthly, a newsletter published from March 1996 through April 1997. Click here to see a synopsis of the contents of each issue and to order back issues.