Rebecca Rothbaum has covered everything from film to food for national newspapers and magazines. Along the way, she’s interviewed Salman Rushdie, tramped through a water buffalo dairy and scoured Central Park for migratory birds. Her work has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including Details; Esquire; Gourmet; Marie Claire; New York; O, The Oprah Magazine; The New Yorker; The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.