A top-notch storyteller and researcher, Muncaster has published more than one-hundred freelance magazine and newspaper articles. Prior to establishment of the Ecogastronomy Initiative, her work focused on adventure travel, outdoor sports and women’s athletics. Freelance articles have appeared in , the Patagonia Catalog, Rock and Ice, Backcountry Magazine, womenspecific.com, women.com (now ivillage), Teton Top to Bottom, Rocky Mountain Sports and Fitness, Planet Jackson Hole, and for two years she wrote a weekly adventure column for the Jackson Hole Guide called Getting Out.
Freelance Clips – Travel and Adventure
Freelance Clips – Ecogastronomy
Freelance Clips – Lifestyle
Today she is working on three books relating to Food and Sustainability:
Ecogastronomy: A Green Guide to Good Eating or The Conscientious Cook: A Green Guide to Good Eating
Inspired by recent political events, the obesity epidemic, the green movement, and contemporary writers, the goal of Ecogastronomy is to mainstream sustainability, and promote stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production. It encourages a revival of the kitchen and the table as a center of pleasure, culture and community, and gives readers the skills they need to slow down, eat well, and reconnect with a more harmonious rhythm of life.
From the Hearth: Food to Come Home To
Born from a dream to inspire people to live happier lives through cooking, From the Hearth is a compilation of treasured childhood family recipes from over 200 friends and family members from different countries and cultures. From everyday meals to “show stoppers,” dishes are chosen to warm hearts and evoke the memories that preserve family traditions—or create new ones.
Sustainable 360
My latest project and 2010 New Year’s Resolution is a daily journal of simple sustainable actions. I am documenting recipes, investment strategies, efforts to slow down, adventure, conservation, activism, and parenting. I chose “360” to represent the interconnection between my life, community, and the environment, as well as the complete turnaround that is possible when small daily steps add up. I blog on www.ecogastronomy.org, and I am gathering friends and co-contributors on my Sustainable 360 Facebook page. I’d like to turn this into an inspirational daily journal/date book/gift book with tips, places to document actions, resources, photos, and fun vignettes. It could be updated annually.
Award-winning food, travel, and lifestyle photographer, , has agreed to work on a book project with me. Her specialty is telling the story of a place through images of food and the elements that surround it. Paulette’s work can be seen in numerous magazines and publications throughout the world. Paulette photographed the cookbook A Taste of Wyoming by Pamela Sinclair (Farcountry Press, 2008). She was awarded the “Best of Show” award at the annual IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) 2008 conference. She is based in Sun Valley, Idaho.