Amber Benham is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a former online editorial assistant at Edible Manhattan. She currently reports on breaking news for The Wall Street Journal. Emerging from the wheat fields of Kansas, Benham fled the Midwest at the age of 21 and came to New York to find her foodie niche. She fell in love with the city, the restaurants and her students in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. After teaching Spanish there for 3 years, she packed up her things and moved to Malaga, Spain. For two years she basked in the sun of the Costa del Sol and tried to master Andalucian cooking, but teaching English to get by wasn’t enough of a challenge. So now she’s back in the Big Apple, hoping to eat, cook and write about it in perfect AP style.
Food & Drink
Slideshow: Why Latte Art is More than Steamed Milk and Coffee, ediblemanhattan.com (2010)
Last week Dean & Deluca, with help from Counter Culture Coffee, hosted its first ever...
Slideshow: For the Love of Cheese, ediblemanhattan.com (2010)
Vernon, N.J.: I can’t say this speck of a town ever made my must-visit list,...
News & Features
Four Indicted in Rape, Forced Prostitution, The Wall Street Journal (2011)
Four men were indicted Wednesday for allegedly repeatedly raping, beating and forcing a 13-year-old girl...
Queens Bodega Is Stained By Murder a Second Time (with Tamer Ghobashy), The Wall Street Journal (2010)
A Brooklyn man who began working at his brother's Queens bodega after a clerk was...
Scenes from a Marathon: Chafing Under the Pressure, New York City News Service (2009)
At Mile Five on the marathon route, volunteers in red shirts greeted sweaty runners with...
NYCity Snapshot: Brooklyn CD 15 (2009)
Days before the election, Brooklyn voters shared their hopes (and fears) for the next four...
CD 15: Til America Do Us Part, New York City News Service (2009)
When Katya Virchenko enrolled at Kingsborough Community College to learn English after immigrating to the...
Arts & Culture
ioby: A Big Idea that Funds Little Projects, brooklynbased.net (2010)
Brandon Whitney, Cassie Flynn and Erin Barnes wanted to make a difference in their Brooklyn...
Showcase: No Relief and Little Attention, The New York Times Lens blog (2010)
Sexual violence, civilian casualties, child soldiers, wounded refugees and malnutrition — there is no shortage...
Tokens: Love In Infant Monkeys, The Brooklyn Rail (2009)
Celebrities and animals collide in Lydia Millet’s Love in Infant Monkeys, a collection of stories...
The Naming of Sheepshead Bay, brooklynbased.net (2009)
Even residents of Sheepshead Bay will sometimes say the bay got its name from its...
Smack Mellon Bridges Artists' Styles: Recapturing 'Kindness and Imagination', New York City News Service (2009)
In a densely decorated studio, Emcee C.M. Master of None showcases his vision of “transforming...