Judith Edelman is the active, athletic type, smartass spiritual seeker and guitar-packing troubadour. A passionate baker and unashamed power eater, she’s been known to weep over a piece of cake. People are instantly drawn to her warmth and spark, while her inner New Yorker stands at the ready with a wisecrack and an attitude when called for. Judith has fully recovered from a cheating husband who left her for their friendly neighbor. Now she’s contemplating a second marriage with her devoted but workaholic boyfriend, while her biological clock ticks away….
Judith was born and raised in Manhattan, the daughter of a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist. Her first career was in economic development and aid work, culminating in a stint in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Back stateside, she took up guitar and forged a career as a singer-songwriter, evolving from a bluegrass Jewbilly into a navel-gazing songstress. Judith has three acclaimed CDs on Nashville’s Compass Records to her credit and composes soundtracks for TV documentaries including the PBS series “Nova.” She also contributes tracks to various CD projects, such as the Grammy Award-winning Stephen Foster tribute “Beautiful Dreamer,” the European compilation “Songs for Choice,” and Janet Reno’s musical history project, “Song of America.” Her fourth recording will be released in 2007.
Taylor Holliday is the journalist, culture vulture and daring eater who disdains exercise as much as she relishes all-night drink-and-talk fests in the local pub. She may be a born skeptic, but underneath the calm, cool exterior lies a sentimental romantic and a total sucker for new places, quirky people and happy endings. Taylor is newly married, having committed later than most after finally learning to steer clear of the certifiably crazy ones. Now she and her writer husband are torn between the financial and lifestyle sacrifices that come with parenthood and the desire to adopt a Vietnamese baby because they’re so darned cute.
Taylor is descended from a long line of Southerners and was born to bohemian parents in backwoods Oklahoma. Chomping at the bit to escape small-town life, her first career was as an international financial analyst in London, Paris and Basel. She then got a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University and spent 10 years as an arts and culture editor in New York for The Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal Europe. Taylor currently is a freelance journalist who has written about travel, food, drink, photography, art and architecture for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She has had Travel-section cover stories in the NYT about eating her way through Vietnam and sailing the Aegean coast of Turkey.
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