513 Hickory Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-297-0740; email: eric@ericburkett.com
Objective:
To combine my experience as a journalist and professional cook as a content provider and editor for a Bay Area publishing company, magazine, or web site. I want to work as an editor of cookery books and other food-related books and publications, as well as continue my work writing about food, and cultural issues surrounding food.
Relevant Professional Experience:
Present: Cook for Blue Fog markets, a small local chain of high-end markets in Laurel Heights and Cow Hollow. Plan menus, write recipes, as well as cooking for both markets.
Present: Freelance writer, publishing in San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Wheel of Dharma, and other publications.
2006-2007: Cook employed with Acrobat Staffing, a foodservice and hospitality staffing agency in San Francisco. Clients with whom I have worked include Taste, Global Gourmet, Knickerbocker, Paula LaDuke, and Elaine Bell.
2006: Kitchen manager at LikeWise Café, 476 Castro Street, San Francisco. Set up and stocked kitchen when café first opened; was responsible for purchasing, overseeing kitchens operations and activities of kitchen staff, and cooking.
2001-2002: Reporter at The Union Democrat, covering county and state government and politics, Sonora, California.
2001: Features writer at Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska.
1999-2001: Reporter at Frontiersman, covering government and politics, Wasilla, Alaska.
1996-1999: Reporter at Anchorage Daily News, covering religion and community news, Anchorage, Alaska.
Education:
2006-2007: Culinary Arts and Hospitality Program at City College of San Francisco.
2007: Copy Editing Cookbooks, one-day workshop sponsored by Editcetera.
2006: Basic Copy Editing, six-week class sponsored by Editcetera and University of California Berkeley Extension.
1998: University of Alaska Anchorage. Advanced journalism class.
1993-1994: Community College of Vermont, Burlington. Liberal studies major.
1990-1991: Concordia University, Montréal, Québec. French language major.
1991: Université de Montréal, Québec. Programme d'immersion français.
1985-1986: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Creative writing studies.
Languages:
Fluent in English; speak and read French. Presently learning Spanish.