Casey Barber

food writer | cookbook author | recipe developer | photographer | illustrator

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muffuletta sandwich

Portfolio

My work—including narrative features and original recipes—has appeared on TODAY Food, The Kitchn, CNN Travel, Design*Sponge, and other national publications. I also develop recipes and produce editorial content for a number of corporate clients and brands.


sour cherry pierogies

Books

I’m the author of Classic Snacks Made from Scratch: 70 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Brand-Name Treats and Pierogi Love: New Takes on an Old-World Comfort Food, and the co-writer of Inspired Bites: Unexpected Ideas for Entertaining from Pinch Food Design.



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Photography and Video

I produce editorial food and beverage photography and videos for a variety of publications and corporate clients, often in conjunction with original recipe content.


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Illustrations

My whimsical hand-drawn illustrations and watercolors have appeared on pop culture-inspired greeting cards and gifts, in books, and in custom commissions for editorial and corporate clients.


Great to Meet You!

Casey

I'm Casey Barber, owner of the creative production company Good Food Stories LLC.

Good Food Stories LLC specializes in custom projects of all shapes and sizes, including:
• Editorial Writing and Branded Content
• Food and Prop Styling
• Photography and Video
• Illustration
• Digital Publishing
• Recipe Development

I'm also:
• founder and editor of the critically acclaimed website Good. Food. Stories., an online magazine that focuses on food from a storyteller’s perspective
• author of the cookbooks Pierogi Love: New Takes on an Old-World Comfort Food and Classic Snacks Made from Scratch: 70 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Brand-Name Treats
• owner of a hell of a lot of vintage Pyrex bowls
• a sour beer aficionado who's chiseling away at her Cicerone certification
• and a maximalist home decorator who nonetheless dreams of #vanlife

Want to know more? Let's talk!

Good. Food. Stories. on Instagram

  • One more for Adam - on tonight's episode of I So Lounging (which is now regular viewing in this house), @amandapearlshires asked us to share a song that has helped us in our life. So here's what might be my most favorite Fountains of Wayne song: Troubled Times, a deep cut from 1999's Utopia Parkway. 🎧 . . . . #musicares #adamschlesinger #fountainsofwayne #ukulelecover #ukulelesongs #troubledtimes #90smusic #isolounging #concertukulele
  • Work in progress - back to watercolors for the first time in months! . . . . #wwllt #watercolorillustration #watercolorillustrator #corndogs #americanfood #foodillustration #foodillustrator #handdrawnart #friedfood
  • I heard rumors that some of you are making a batch of my single-serving pimiento cheese every day. Truly, I am honored and feel there can be no higher form of self-care than cheese spread. 🧀 And I would be joining you if I weren't painfully low on mayo at this point! Link in bio if you, too, would like to make pimiento cheese for a daily project. . . . . #pimientocheese #pimentocheese #cheesespread #singleserving #selfcaretips #ilovecheese #smallbatchsnacks #homemadesnacks #drinkingsnacks
  • Friday cocktail: the Liz Fizz, in honor of drink-fixer extraordinaire @liztarpy - who does public service by texting me about negroni fizzes at 10am. 😆🍹 . . . . #pinkdrink #negroni #campari #ginfizz #shakennotstirred #everyhourishappyhour #timeforadrink #whataweek #lillet
  • 💔 . . . . #fountainsofwayne #adamschlesinger #heyjulie

DCB On The Road on Instagram

  • Hey, remember when we lived in a van for 3 weeks and wore the same 4 pieces of clothing over and over again? That was a lot more fun back then. . . . . #vanlife #dcbroute66 #joshuatreenps #joshuatreenationalpark #campcooking #vancooking #seeamericafirst #hiddenvalleytrail #desertlife🌵
  • Almost as good as being there??? Not really, but in lieu of traveling this month, I worked on a personal art project as part of the #makingarteveryday challenge. 👩‍🎨 This is the final letter in Casey and Dan's Travel Alphabet, inspired by a trip to Kolob Canyon in 2017. If you want to see the entire series of drawings, they're over on my personal account @goodfoodstories for hours (ok, minutes) of perusal. -CB . . . . #zionnationalpark #kolobcanyon #travelart #nationalparkstraveler #utahlandscape #procreateart #procreatedrawing #wideopenspaces
  • It's our annual tradition to choose our favorite travel photos from the past year to display on our cork-covered cabinets. 🖼️ 2019 was an overstuffed one because of our month on Route 66, but we managed to find some winners from the other 11 months to include! 📸 It was a little bittersweet putting these up today, but I've got to hope that we'll be able to fill the wall with more photos next year. 🧳 (Too many spots to tag - look for IDs in the comments and pinch the image to zoom in.) -CB
  • Most definitely not as cinematographically or sonically gorgeous as the actual @firstaidkitband video for "Emmylou" filmed in Joshua Tree, but here's our small homage to a song we love to pieces. -CB . . . . #joshuatreenationalpark #joshuatreenps #firstaidkit #emmylou #ukulelecover #ukulelesongs #dcbroute66 #singingoutside #roadsongs
  • Since we're not going anywhere for a while, here's social distancing, Glacier-style. 🏔️(Grinnell Glacier summit, August 2018) -CB . . . . #glaciernationalpark #grinnellglacier #glaciernps #montanamoment #findyourpark #nationalparkgeek #hikinglife @glaciernps @goparks