Today Martindale concentrates of food and cruise writing. A social/cultural anthropology major, she has been writing non-fiction for over 30 years, and to this she brought a background in broadcasting, copywriting and hospitality marketing. Her food and travel writing has taken her to most points in the Caribbean, twice to Brazil, the length of Central America and along the Mediterranean. Though a native New Englander, she now lives on the west coast of Florida with years spent in New Mexico and Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
She started her cruise industry experience as a cruise business editor for an international weekly soon adding first-hand knowledge of megaships, panamaxes, elderhostel study cruises, exotic small ships, paddlewheelers, freighters and contrasting spartan adventure trips to luxury cruising with a penthouse including butler. This was in stark contrast to her first cruise aboard the Yarmouth Castle, four bunks to a cabin with a bath-down-the-hall, during its “whirlwind” $89 cruise package to the ports of Cap Haitian and Santa Domingo. The Castle sank the same year, 1965.
Martindale has published work in business and travel publications ranging from the Journal of College Placement to Gourmet Retailer. She has also contributed articles to Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (2003), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2004), Culinary Biographies (2006), The Concise Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2007), The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries (2007), Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl: An Encyclopedia (2008), Storied Recipes (2009) and Culinary Biographies: A Dictionary of the World’s Greatest Historic Chefs, Cookbook Authors, et.al. (2008).
Martindale’s memberships include the Slow Food Movement, the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), and the Association for the Study of Food & Society (ASFS). She is recipient of an Addy Broadcasting Award and the 2005 Cordon d’Or Crystal Globe Website Award for Food Site of the Day.
Drop her an email at: mm@FoodSiteoftheDay.com.
