03/14 FOOD CRITIC MERRILL SHINDLER, FOOD/TRAVEL TRENDS, ANIMAL PLANET’S ANDREA ARDEN

FOOD CRITIC MERRILL SHINDLER DISHES ON FOOD/TRAVEL TRENDS

Food critic/reviewer Merrill Shindler has written and spoken about his various oral fixations, both in America and abroad, for most of his adult life.  Beginning in the early ’70s as the Restaurant Critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian (a position that led, inexplicably, to three years as Music Editor at Rolling Stone), he’s written about livin’ large as Restaurant Critic for San Francisco Magazine, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, along with covering the world of chow for the New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Diversion, Food Arts, Food & Wine and Bon Appetit. Merrill Shindler has been editor of the Los Angeles Zagat Survey, host of Fine Living: Critics on the Fine Living Network, restaurant critic for the Copley and San Gabriel Valley Newspapers, and host of a weekly program on how much fun it is to put things in your mouth on KABC Radio.

NATIONAL FOOD/TRAVEL TOPIC HE CAN DISH ON:
Eating Where the Locals Eat: I travel a lot. Long ago, I found the worst suggestions come from the concierge, who'll send you to a Continental restaurant at the top of a bank building for veal parmesan. The best suggestions...come from the parking valets, the bellmen -- the folks who eat local, and eat good. Cab drivers too. They've led me to amazing places.

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ANIMAL PLANET’S PET EXPERT AND AUTHOR ANDREA ARDEN ANNOUNCING A NEW PROGRAM TO HELP PETS IN NEED

A NEW PHILANTROPIC PROGRAM TO HELP PETS!

With as many as 7 Million Pets in Shelters Each Year, Find

Out from Arden How PetSmart® Plans to Help Pets in Need

There are from 5.5 million to 7 million pets entering animal shelters every year.  On March 14, pet super star trainer Andrea Arden will reveal a new program to help pets in need across North America. Find out how Petsmart, the largest specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets, is making a difference in honor of the company’s 30th anniversary.

You may have seen Andrea on Dogs101, Cats101, Pets101, America’s Cutest Dog, America’s Cutest Cat, and Underdog to Wonderdog, and she was the trainer for FX’s Emmy Award winning show, The Pet Department. Andrea can also be seen on Live with Kelly & Michael, The Today Show, 20/20, Dateline NBC, The View, CBS News, CNN, Fox, PBS, Fox News, and Lifetime. Andrea is the author of Barron’s Dog Training Bible, Dog Friendly Dog Training, Train Your Dog the Lazy Way, and The Little Book of Dog Tricks.

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