Hi! I'm Melissa. I write and photograph The Traveler's Lunchbox from my home, wherever in the world that may be. Right now it's northern Germany. During the life of this blog it has also been Seattle and Edinburgh, Scotland. At various points in my pre-blogging past it was also Berkeley, New Orleans, Bilbao and Dublin. I am by training a sociolinguist, but make most of my money these days as a freelance writer and photographer. It's not a great living, but it's a great life, and one I share with my husband and best friend Manuel (who happens to be German, though you wouldn't know it by his name). Oh, and I should probably mention that I'm American, since even though I've spent more than a third of my life abroad, where food is concerned it's hard to escape your roots.

If you're looking for more of my writing and/or photography you'll find it frequently gracing the pages of publications like the UK's Food and Travel Magazine and Pacific Northwest, the Sunday magazine of The Seattle Times. You'll also find plenty of examples on my professional site at www.melissakronenthal.com.

If you'd like to get in touch you're welcome to reach me at melissa at travelerslunchbox dot com.

Please note that content on this site is all rights reserved. If you have an interest in reproducing it anywhere, please get in touch. Likewise, if you would like to license an image for commercial purposes (hi-res versions of most of my images are available) or discuss a commission (writing or photography), I'm all ears.

Proof that I was blogging long before it was fashionable!