I grew up in New York—Manhattan, to be exact—and learned immediately, as soon as I had walking under my belt, how to hail a cab and how to order intelligently in a restaurant. My parents loved dining out and took me to some of the finest restaurants in New York.

After college, I worked for magazines as an editor and writer. Eventually I followed my interest in food and wine and held many positions as a New York food editor and writer in the 1970s and 1980s. I hosted many dinner parties at my downtown loft.

I've written for Gourmet Magazine, Food and Wine, the New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News and was the New York editor of Cuisine Magazine and lastly Good Foods Magazine, of which I was part owner and publisher.

I went to my house in the Hamptons that summer and stayed for nearly 20 years. I got my real estate license, have been with Sotheby's for nearly 20 years and have brokered to some of the wealthiest individuals in America who still think that the Hamptons is a great place to be.

All the while I would escape the Hamptons in the summer to unwind along the coast of Maine. And here I am, for about the last two years, a resident of Portland, Maine. I've returned to my love of writing about food (which in spirit I never left) and still practice the frenzied art of real estate, about which I write a gossip column in NY under a pen name.

I live on the Western Prom, with a significant other and significant dog and cat in a significant house too large but too beautiful to give up just yet. It has an enormous kitchen that we will renovate one day.