Updated 9/28/08

Snackish is about finding cheap and delicious things to eat, generally for $10 and under, in New York City. The idea to launch a blog sprang from an all-consuming obsession with Little Pie Company’s sour cream apple walnut crumb pie, back when I was new to the city and money was especially tight. The ability to grab something new, affordable and tasty to eat at the end of the day meant a lot to me then (and still gets me excited now).

Growing up, I was not an adventurous eater. Pizza and french fries were my sustenance and my habits were remarkably consistent. For lunch in second grade I ate a toasted cheese sandwich (with the crust peeled off), washed down with a chocolate milk, every day–for an entire year. In fact, I hated trying new foods, and viewed anyone who made me eat something remotely pickled or spicy as a kind of sadist. It really wasn’t until I moved to NYC that I discovered there’s more to love than fast food–and that there’s even subtle levels of junk food to explore.

Snackish runs on the Wordpress platform, and I made the current theme using Photoshop and Aptana, with some help from Urbanfonts. Cyberhobo’s geomashup plugin powers the snack map. I generally use a Sony cybershot to take photos, or a Nikon D40x when I want to haul out a haulking piece of camera equipment. More photos are available on my Flickr. There have been three “themes” for Snackish so far, and I’m working on a fourth stylesheet now.

When I’m not snacking I’m a web producer at a magazine publisher and a graduate student at the New School. Previously, I’ve worked for a marketing agency, for two trade book publishers, and an educational publisher; I’ve also been an esspresso-maker, a bookseller, a freelance writer, a cashier, a bank teller (for one day), and a dot-com intern, way back when the internet was shiny and new.