Eating Your Way Across Ohio—101 Must Places to Eat

Award-winning author and journalist Karen Patterson covered over 7000 miles of Ohio's hills, valleys, lowlands, towns and cities to visit more than 100 restaurants. In Eating Your Way Across Ohio: 101 Must Places to Eat, she includes only 101 of the best locally owned and managed establishments where one can get a tasty meal in a comfortable environment at a reasonable price. Sure, some places feature gourmet dining, and others offer intimate candlelight dinners, but so many more let you relax in the environment of a 1950s diner, a holistic all natural eatery, a coffee and dessert cafe or a southern barbeque place.Whether you are eating on the run or luxuriously lingering over a good meal, there is a restaurant for you, and if not just around the corner certainly within a tank of gas from where you are.

Karen A. Patterson grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Marquette University graduating with a degree in communications before attending Spalding University where she earned a Masters in Fine Arts in nonfiction writing.She moved to Chicago where she worked as an editor and writer for the National Safety Council, National Eye Research Foundation, U.S. League of Savings Institutions, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. After she moved to Columbus, Ohio, she directed the communications department for PriceWaterhouse Coopers and eventually made her way to Chillicothe where she was the director of marketing and public relations for Adena Medical Center.As a certified master gardener and syndicated columnist for the Gannett and Thompson newspapers, she wrote about the practical side of gardening, but her main focus was raising and using herbs which resulted in her book Herbs for All Seasons.As an award winning writer, Patterson has authored or contributed to nine other books including Allies Forever: The Life and Times of an American Prisoner of War, a memoir of her father who was shot down Christmas Day, 1944 and was held prisoner by the Germans.On her life's journey, she has travelled and tasted some of the finest food in the world in Israel, Africa, Nicaragua and the Caribbean, and written about her experiences in travel guides and articles.She is a dedicated instructor of writing, journalism and communications at Ohio Christian University and Ohio University, and enjoys sharing her lifetime of writing experience with her students.