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Our new culinary radio show, Wine and Dine San Diego Radio is moving from a conventional studio to the fabulous showroom of Fixtures Living next week. This is a great opportunity for us to take advantage of their gorgeous digs and central location to bring San Diego’s top food and wine folks to you weekly–not [...]

A Fun Little Surprise on Gourmet.com

Posted December 8th, 2011 by Caron. Comment (0).

I’m part of the BlogHer network, which is collaborating with Gourmet Live. I was asked by them to suggest the best restaurant in San Diego to hold a party — which would appear on gourmet.com. My write up is one of 10 around the country just published and now live on the site. Take a [...]

Edison Research has just released a new report on Twitter Usage in America 2010 and the results are fascinating for the discrepancy between awareness of this social media platform and actual usage. Clearly, American awareness has exploded in just two years, from 5 percent in 2008 to 87% in 2010. That’s from preteens aged 12 [...]

Recently, the Washington Post issued social media guidelines to its staff and they’ve caused some controversy, thanks to the long list of “can’t do’s” that some see as stymying the kind of conversation in which journalists need to be engaged. It’s not just media companies that are looking at how to manage the Tower of [...]

Mastering Social Media for Employment Success Tuesday, July 21, 8:30 a.m. – 12 noon National University, Spectrum Learning Center 9388 Lightwave Avenue, San Diego Three facts stand out for today’s professional communicators: Jobs aren’t waiting for you in the classified ads anymore. Using social media tools is no longer optional. Mastery of these tools is [...]

Capitalist Pig Virus?

Posted May 2nd, 2009 by Caron. Comment (1).

I’ve got more information from my friend Paula McDonald about the background of the start of this virus. She lives in Puerto Escondido, a coastal fishing village in southern Mexico. San Diegans know her as a longtime writer and photographer who covered Baja from Rosarito. Smithfield is the largest hog producer in the world with [...]

My good friend, writer and photographer Paula McDonald, has lived in Mexico for decades, first in Rosarito and now in Puerto Escondido, a small coastal fishing village in southern Mexico. She sent me a note today about what’s happening in Mexico and I thought it was worth sharing: A bit of truth from the local scene [...]

Welcome to GoldenWriting

Posted April 18th, 2007 by Caron. Comment (0).

Hi, I’m Caron Golden. I’m a longtime freelance writer, food blogger and radio host based in San Diego. I’ve written for a variety of traditional publications, like the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, as well as websites like SDNN.com (where I’m a food columnist) and culinate.com. I also do a lot of work [...]