We Are Family - Winter 2023 Issue

You have made it possible to live this painstaking yet rewarding life that has changed my own family for the better. The people I have met along this road have made editing and publishing my love and not my job. The friendships that have blossomed from my time with Edible are held closely in my heart and soul. People like Sam from Goods for Cooks, Ellie from the Janeways, Nani from Currently in My Mouth, Lynsey from Peaceful & Practical Edible Gardens, Audrey from Ezra’s and Wild Moon Acres, Ross from Roosters, Aric from Ash Blaeds, the entire Huse Culinary family and my family at the Indianapolis Indians and so many more inspire me to live a life of happiness and to enjoy each day as it comes.

My Edible Communities family has produced some of my best friends around the world. Even from a distance they embrace, love and fight for me and I for them. Jaci and Amanda from Edible Reno-Tahoe, Tina and Tracy from Edible Sarasota, Cheryl from Edible East Bay and I can’t forget Doug, Susie, Tracey, Amy and all of the others who continue to build a legacy of advocacy and appetite for all things food. And I must not forget Francine (my managing editor), without whom this journey would not have been nearly as gratifying with all of our laughter, shenanigans and conversations strung from the Netherlands to Canada and everywhere in between. You all have my heart as I bid you a final (and yes this is it) goodbye.

Lastly, great gratitude to my biggest fans: my besties in Cleveland, my mother-in-law and all her tea party friends, my parents and brothers but most of all my husband and daughters, who never doubted my ability to showcase the passion I have for producing, sharing and making something that was pure love. The words simply are not enough.

Thank you to everyone who believed in me and who made me believe in myself. This is the part I cherish the most.

Until we meet again,
Jennifer Rubenstein 
2023 Indiana Grown Commission Board Member

In December 2014 I joined an exciting new family when I became the editor of the newly minted magazine Edible Houston in Texas. I didn’t know exactly how exciting this new family would be until the 2015 conference in New Orleans where I met publishers and editors of sister Edible magazines from all over North America. One of them was Edible Indy’s Jennifer Rubenstein. We clicked immediately over cocktails and a decorative glass bowl doubling as a hat (insider joke—but Jennifer wore it well). I rubbed shoulders in various conference rooms with our designer, the multitalented Cheryl Koehler, publisher of Edible East Bay, as well. At the last Edible conference that I attended—Santa Fe in January 2020—I also (finally) got to chat with editor familias Doug Adrianson, the copy editor I had the pleasure of working with on so many issues, first with Edible Houston and now with Edible Indy.

The Edible family is a great and warm one to be a part of—and it makes me sad to bid farewell. That said, the local-food world is a small one and you never know who you will run into, where and whenever. To all the Edibles I say cheers and… keep on mapping that most important live-local landscape.

With pleasure, 
Francine Spiering