about savor

Hi, I’m Susan

For four decades, I’ve written about food and travel and culture for newspapers and magazines across the country as well as for online media. I worked for 20 years as a trusted restaurant critic for The Birmingham News. Before that, I was a food and lifestyle writer for The Tampa Tribune, one of Florida’s largest newspapers. My articles about food and the people making and serving it appear online at Alabama NewsCenter. And I am a founding member of the Birmingham Chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International.

I’m the mother of three grown children, and my husband, Rick, and I have been married for nearly 40 years. I love books of all kinds, cooking globally, traveling the world, sharing all the special things in my hometown of Birmingham, hiking, DIY projects and Pepper (my cat and the spice!). The beach is my happy place. So is the desert. I think it’s all that openness.