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About Julie
Thanks to foodie blogs—boosted, no doubt, by quarantined cooks—duck has been getting a makeover. Think seared duck breast with Hickey Bottom BBQ sauce, duck pot stickers and even duck bacon. Fun fact: The most popular species, White Pekin, doesn’t fly, doesn’t require a duck pond and is mostly raised on Amish family farms. This is not your son’s trophy bird…
I’ve spent most of my life telling other people’s stories. It’s what drives me. Story is how I relate to the world. When Pulitzer-prize winning author Tom French speaks of storytelling, I finally feel understood. He says, “Stories are our defense against randomness….They calm us, inspire us, allow us to confront doubts and fears. They transport us into other lives and other experiences…”
Recent Work
Thanks to foodie blogs—boosted, no doubt, by quarantined cooks—duck has been getting a makeover. Think seared duck breast with Hickey Bottom BBQ sauce, duck pot stickers and even duck bacon. Fun fact: The most popular species, White Pekin, doesn’t fly, doesn’t require a duck pond and is mostly raised on Amish family farms. This is not your son’s trophy bird…
About Julie
I’ve spent most of my life telling other people’s stories. It’s what drives me. Story is how I relate to the world. When Pulitzer-prize winning author Tom French speaks of storytelling, I finally feel understood. He says, “Stories are our defense against randomness….They calm us, inspire us, allow us to confront doubts and fears. They transport us into other lives and other experiences…”
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“Bowden Postscript”
It was the year 2000 and a book publisher had contacted me about writing a collection of quotes from Florida State University’s Head Coach Bobby Bowden. I agreed on one condition: that I could get the coach’s permission.