You can get in touch with me @jaredography on Twitter or Instagram or via email at jaredhkaufman @ gmail.com. I am a food and features reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and, before that, spent several years working as a cheesemonger. Plus, I occasionally tell stories onstage at comedy open mics in St. Paul and Minneapolis and have also performed in New York City.

As an artist, I create letterpress posters inspired by Jewish and Yiddish protest art, vintage showprints, and modern cultural criticism. I’ve also designed and printed custom jobs including a cocktail menu for a New Ulm, Minn., distillery and merch packaging for another local artist. My shop is called ZAMLER PRESS (< click there!).

I hold a master’s degree in food studies from Boston University’s gastronomy program, where my thesis research focused on the construction of childhood taste through restaurant kids’ menus. Previously, I graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. More previously, I lost my middle school spelling bee on the word “smorgasbord.”