Food & Travel Writing

Gayle has written for Gourmet, National Geographic Traveler, AFAR, Islands, Executive Traveler, GQ, ForbesLife Executive Woman, Four Seasons, VIA, 360 and the Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants guides. She has been a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, where she created a monthly column on travel magazines; her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, New Orleans Times-Picayune and other major newspapers. Her pieces have been selected for the anthologies Best Travelers’ Tales 2004 and Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008; her story, “Pirates of the Mediterranean,” won a Lowell Thomas Award (the "Oscars" of travel writing). Gayle also does marketing, naming and branding writing, specializing in food and beverages. She has won a Clio (the "Oscars" of advertising). Gayle has yet to win an Academy Award (the "Oscars" of Oscars).