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Lia Huber had an auspicious start to her food career when she won a gold medal in a beanstalk growing contest at her kindergarten. But it wasn't for another two and a half decades, when she moved from New York to San Francisco in 1997, that she cultivated food into a full-time pursuit. Lia's articles and recipes have appeared in national magazines including Cooking Light (where she is a contributing editor and media spokesperson), Prevention, Health, Natural Health, Hemispheres and Fitness. She has appeared live on FOX television and her work has been featured on CNN.com, MSNBC.com and WebMD.
Lia began pursuing a career as a travel writer in the wee hours of the night during the late 90s while working as a marketing manager in New York City by day. Her first article, in a 1996 issue of Hemispheres, covered the music clubs in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans and was followed by several other destination pieces. But a move to California in 1997 spawned a love affair with fresh, seasonal produce and local ingredients and Lia shifted her focus from travel to food. Later, a serious health issue and a persistent '20 too much' prompted Lia to branch out and seek nutrition-focused assignments to learn from the experts what healthy living looked like.
During the course of her career, Lia has contributed several hundred recipes to nearly a dozen publications, and her approachable and curious style combined with a you-can-do-it-too attitude has inspired millions of readers. Now, Lia looks forward to using the experience she's amassed both professionally and personally to develop a platform for teaching people how to nourish themselves, body and soul. Her goal is to help people get past the notions that healthy means deprivation and enjoyment equals excess and show them how to live richly in the fertile ground in between.
In addition to writing for publication, Lia has helped several top companies in the food, wine and travel industries find their voices, from taglines and positioning strategies to ghostwriting and ad copy. In 2007, Lia entered the realm of new media writing about food, wine and life in wine country as the first-person author of Clos du Bois' Swirling Notion blog.
Lia received an MBA from University of Florida, a BA in Communication with a minor in French from Tulane University, and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Culinary Institute of America Greystone in Napa Valley. She recently finished her first novel, I Land Home, and is currently in edits with a prospective agent. Lia lived in New York, New Orleans, Paris, Greece, Costa Rica and San Francisco before putting down roots in Healdsburg with her husband, Christopher, and daughter, Noemi.