Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner

Title: Writer

Education: Columbia University

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Expertise: cooking, restaurants, pasta, Jewish food, New York

Melissa is a writer and recipe developer living in Brooklyn. She majored in Creative Writing at Columbia University and has worked as a journalist in New York City for over a decade.

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