Maria Scinto

With Us Since
2019
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Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
School
University of Denver
Expertise
Food history, Themed cookbooks, Shopping on a budget
  • In 2007, Maria ghost-wrote "The Takeout Cookbook: How to Order, Eat, and Care for Food You Didn't Cook," a 164-page "cookbook" with but a single recipe. (Spoiler: It's for sheep's feet in white sauce, yum.)
  • She used to host a podcast called "Quirky Cookbooks," where she'd cook a selection of items from her extensive themed cookbook collection, including astrology-based recipes, favorite dishes of Attitude Era WWF superstars, and recipes dictated to a ghost whisperer by spirits of the dearly departed.
  • Her proudest accomplishment to date is having managed to name-drop numerous pro wrestlers, including Macho Man Randy Savage and Chris Jericho, in articles that are actually about food.

Experience

Maria has a background as a librarian that gives her the research skills necessary to dig up obscure food facts, but she began writing on the side as a broke single mom over 20 years ago. She's written for print publications, including two DC-area weekly newspapers, the Montgomery Journal and the Fairfax Times, as well as Northern Virginia Magazine, where a piece she wrote on area child care centers was awarded a Virginia Press Association first-place prize for personal service writing. She has also published numerous articles on websites including Realtor.com, Movoto, AZCentral, Livestrong, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Maria began writing full-time for Static Media in 2019 and, during her tenure with the brand, has produced features for Wrestling Inc., Grunge, Tasting Table, and Mashed as well as news articles for Nicki Swift, Health Digest, List, Tasting Table, Mashed, The Daily Meal, and The Takeout. She considers herself a generalist, but eventually settled on The Takeout as a home brand because it allows her to write about the lighter side of food.

Education

Maria has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Denver.

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