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Featured Author:
Tricia Martin

Tricia Martin is an eating designer, writer, and founder of Taste Matters, an eating design studio. As a designer, she uses food to communicate stories, ideas, or messages. The tastes and textures in your mouth, the act of chewing or feeding, the sights, sounds, smells and colors of the foods we eat are all integral to what she considers and plays upon in her designs. It is through these sensory experiences that she weaves a story or a message into what it is we are eating and how we are eating it.

Tricia has a B.A. in urban planning from The University of Cincinnati’s school of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning (DAAP) and an M.F.A. from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). When she is not thinking about, talking about, or creating food concepts, she spends her time riding her bike, blogging at Eating is Art, and teaching yoga. She also recently published a book Eating Design; you can find out more about her book in our store.

More articles from this author:

• Why Eating Design?
• New "Anti-Restaurant" in Portland