IN THE NEWS:
Capital
Times
Award-winning
writer, Jeanette Hurt, will do
what it takes to get the story.
She’s crashed enough cars to win a demolition derby.
She’s tasted all of
Wisconsin’s artisan cheeses and many international cheeses as well.
She’s biked across the
Loire
Valley
in
France
and by the sea in Tuscany. She’s done all that on
deadline and to her editor’s desired specifications.
As a result, she is an award-winning writer and budding author.
Jeanette recently was awarded
First Place
for the best article written about a
Midwest
destination in the Midwest Travel Writers Association’s 2007 Mark Twain
competition. The article,
"Play Grounds”, appeared in the May-June 2006 issue of Midwest
Airline’s in-flight magazine.
Judge Susan McNeese Lynch, said in her critique of the article:
Through
this writing, an age-old entertainment form becomes fresh again-great
juxtaposition between the old tradition on stage and the new tradition in
the audience—captivates.
Jeanette is the author of
two books to be published in the spring of 2008.
The Countryman press will be publishing The
Cheeses of Wisconsin: A Culinary Travel Guide. Penguin Books will publish The
Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Cheeses of the World, a guidebook that
explores the world of international cheeses. Currently,
she is working on The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tapas
(November 2008) and The Cheeses of California: A Culinary Travel Guide (Spring 2009).
Jeanette specializes in food, wine and travel writing.
She also regularly writes about design, pets and health/fitness
issues, but she can never resist telling a good story, no matter what the
subject matter. Her work can
be seen in: Budget Travel, Parenting, Relish, Wine Enthusiast, Golf Connoisseur,
Better Homes and Gardens Kitchen and
Bath
Ideas,
Midwest
Airlines in-flight magazine and others.
She has more
than 16 years of professional writing and editing experience.
Prior to 2002 when she began her freelance career she worked as a
reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, the Milwaukee
Sentinel and the
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel.
When she’s not writing,
Jeanette swims with the Wisconsin Water Loons masters synchronized
swimming team, and she also enjoys biking and taking long walks with her
terrier-hound mix, Olivia, along
Lake Michigan. Jeanette loves to cook and
bake and has taken several cooking classes in the
United States,
France
and Japan. She and her husband Kyle are
actively restoring a vintage
Cape Cod
, and they’ve just begun an intensive kitchen remodeling project, which
means Jeanette is experimenting with the art of toaster oven and crock pot
cuisine. Jeanette is bilingual
in Spanish, conversant in French, and has studied Japanese.
Check
this web site for further updates on Jeanette's projects.