Mandy Erickson
freelance writing and editing

Mandy Erickson reviews restaurants for the San Francisco Chronicle; her beat is the San Francisco Peninsula, from high-end restaurants to bars and bargain eateries, Japanese to Italian.

Mandy has a food blog, Mandy Eats the Bay, and she writes other food-related stories, including an advice column, a profile of a competitive baker, and a story about a wine researcher.

Mandy doesn't just do food. Besides her books, she has written magazine and newspaper articles on small business, religion, parenting, health care, and other topics:

• The lead story in Stanford Medicine's issue on medical technology.
• An essay in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine's My Word column.
• A piece about her son's first haircut in BabyTalk magazine.
• An article about black Catholics in the United States.
• Profiles for Stanford Lawyer magazine.
• An article about treating earaches in Health magazine.
• An essay about a bird that raised its hatchling outside her fourth-story window.