janice nieder

Location: san francisco, ca, United States

Member Since: 22 August 2004

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

 International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association

 Bay Area Travel Writers

 North American Travel Journalists Association

Introduction

Janice Nieder could be the love child of Indiana Jones and Julia Child. She was a specialty food consultant for 12 years in New York, with a client list that included Tavern on the Green, Dean & Deluca and Sign of the Dove.

After being bitten by the travel bug, her culinary adventures took her to over 80 countries, where she shared a smoked monkey dinner with a generous Shuar Indian family deep in the Amazon Jungle; helped Ethiopian tribal woman bake injera bread on hot stones in 108 degree heat; and crashed a wedding feast in Pakistan, where she was wined and dined by over 200 men — and no women.

Last year, she mistakenly bought camouflage clothes to participate in a week-long truffle hunting safari in Marche, Italy, never tiring of the decadently delicious fungi feasts.

But her real passion is working with underdeveloped countries to protect their cultural identity by preserving their traditional foods and cooking methods. To this end, Janice has written numerous articles about her culinary discoveries, assisted local producers with bringing their products to market, and consulted with tourism and business leaders on developing and promoting local farmers markets, cooking classes,and culinary tours.

Janice has received San Francisco's Community Leadership Award of Excellence for her on- going work as the Volunteer Coordinator for C.H.E.F.S. ( Conquering Homelessness Through Employment in Food Service) a program she helped develop that provides culinary and job skill training for the homeless. She is also a leading member of the San Francisco Professional Food Society, Bay Area Travel Writers, and Slow Food.

To keep things in balance, Janice also enjoys writing about spas, soft-core adventure, the cultural scene, shopping, local crafts, markets, chef interviews,etc.

Her Girlfriend Getaway pieces can be found on Examiner.com which receives over 50 million page views a month. She's also a staff writer for Vagablond.com, a popular site that covers luxury travel, food and wine,as well as the "Dining Diva" for Tangodiva.com, the premier website for women who travel. Her "inside scoop" stories can also be found on the sophisticated and ever so entertaining site, JetSetExtra.com.

She writes for a new ultra-luxe website, La Sarenne(the editor was previously involved with The Robb Report) geared toward fractional ownership members, where she reviews exclusive hotels, spas, resorts and restaurants. Janice recently became a staff writer for the travel department of The Global Herald, www.theglobalherald.com, based in London, which attracts an international audience in excess of 1 million page-loads per month.

Experience & Expertise

Janice Nieder is a San-Francisco based Food & Fitness Consultant blessed with an insatiable culinary curiosity. While others make dinner reservations, she makes plane reservations in search of a truly memorable meal.

Publishing Credentials

To Myanmar With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur,TheGlobalHerald.com, Slow Food International,Examiner.com, Tangodiva.com,San Francisco Professional Food Society News, San Francisco Chronicle, Divine Caroline, Vagablond.com,International Travel News, San Francisco Medicine, Business Women's Calendar, Species,55-Plus,Women's Economic Network,Trip Advisor.com,Starkinsider.com

Clips & Samples (View All 39)

Tasty Travels Through Greater Phoenix, BootsnAll.com

ABC’s of North Carolina, Charlotte (part 1), starkinsider.com

Polish Highlander Culinary Adventure – from Applecake to Zapiekanka, starkinsider.com

24 Hours of Glorious Gluttony in Warsaw, The Global Herald

Wroclaw finally gets some richly deserved respect, The Global Herald