about.

picture by Sara Cramer of Beyond the Flavor

….formerly “edible cville….” *

Jenée Libby is a writer of food, fiction, travel, and essay. A struggling photographer, a frustrated novelist, and a lover of diner ephemera. She’s obsessed with vintage cookbooks and sells them in her Etsy shop, edacious (cook)booksellers.

Her blog, The Diner of Cville began in 2008 as “edible cville” a restaurant review site, but quickly evolved into a frenzied literary mosaic of all things food. Because Charlottesville is much more than its wine, weddings, and the ever-popular “Which restaurant will close next?” drama. There are food stories. And a glorious food history. Almost 700 Facebook fans and 2700 Twitter followers seem to agree and for that she is grateful. C-Ville Weekly granted her its 2010 “Best Food Blog” award and named her Runner-Up in 2011, and for that she is astonished. And grateful.

Jenée adores brunch with cocktails, prefers barefoot picnics to fine dining, barbecue to foie gras, is constantly on the hunt for the absolutely perfect raw oyster, believes biscuits with honey to be a cure-all, turns her nose up at birthday cake that isn’t pound cake, and thinks anyone who doesn’t believe pho is the perfect food is just plain silly. Her dream dinner party guests would include Jacques Pépin, Oscar Wilde, Isak Dinesen, Dolly Parton, and Larry Bly and Laban Johnson, Jr. from “Cookin’ Cheap”. She is not a chef or a foodie. Just someone who loves to cook, eat, travel, and write about it all.

* Why the switch? Here’s my kerfuffling explanation…I put this up on edible cville the day I moved. I LOVE the screen capture makes me look drunk off my ass :D anyone know how to remedy this?