Jennifer Richardson is an American Anglophile who spent three years living in a Cotswold village populated straight out of British central casting. Fumbling aristocrats, gentlemen farmers, and a village idiot—a role she mostly played herself—all provided the source material for her memoir, Americashire.
Her husband is a Liverpudlian who, although not the village idiot, provides her with ample writing material. They currently live in California and regularly visit the Cotswolds.
Some other things Jennifer has written:
- Food & Drink
- Edible San Fernando Valley: The Valley Hive (Spring 2023); Plant-Based Pleasure from a French Chef (Spring 2023); Hungry Gardens (Winter 2022); Sustainable Living Made Easy (Winter 2022)
- Edible Ojai & Ventura County: Welcome to Mesa: A good-news story about homelessness (Fall 2024); Something new to CRAVE (Spring 2024); Tradition By the Teacup (Winter 2024); An Appetite for Learning (Fall 2023); School’s Out(side) Forever (Summer 2023); Building a Better Cover Crop (Winter 2022); Full-Circle Farming (Summer 2022); New Beginnings from Old Azu (Winter 2021); Coming home to Coffee (Fall 2021); All Fired Up: Local Artist Finds Kinship with the Kiln at Firestick Pottery (Winter 2020); Finding Ojai Magic in a Cup of Tea; (Summer 2020); Beato Chocolates and the Legacy of Beatrice Wood (Winter 2019); Hip Vegan: A Fresh Start (Spring 2019); A Primer on Whisky: All Drams, No Drama (Winter 2018); Nate Pidduck: Art of the Plate (Spring 2018); Camarillo: Up and Down the Boulevard (Fall 2017); Restaurant Staff Meals Are Family Style (Summer 2017); The Literature of Libations (Winter 2016); Mexican Restaurants of “The Avenue” in Ventura (Fall 2015); Cool Down Lickity-Split This Summer with Ice Pops (Summer 2015); The Spirits Are Calling: Behind the scenes of Ojai’s burgeoning bartending club (Spring 2015); Pros At Home: Profile of baker Katherine Glassman (Winter 2014)
- Anthologized in A Cup of Culture and a Pinch of Crisis: Tales from a Small Planet, the Food Edition
- Remedy Quarterly Issue 20: Eating the Avenue
- Books & Reading
- Mind the Product: The unlikely product management wisdom of Helen DeWitt’s “Lightning Rods”
- The Rumpus: Notable San Francisco weekly literary events columnist
- Fiction Advocate: Wide Awake in America (Ottessa Moshfegh); Piss-Take (Rachel Cusk); The Writer’s Diary (Alan Bennett, Joan Didion, and David Sedaris); Confessions of a Middle-Class Tramp Fancier (W.H. Davies); Patti Smith’s Berlin
- The Dead Mule: Cultural Debts
- Travel
- ExBerliner: Patti Smith’s Berlin
- Full Grown People: Lift
- Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel: High Hopes on the Cotswold Way
- Tales from a Small Planet: The £400 Fruitcake and Other Lessons on Fitting In
- Miscellany
- Full Grown People: Memento Mori; Peach Courage; The Fear
- Maximum Middle Age: The Realities of Living Apart Together
- The Rumpus: Big Pharma Wants to Date Me, and Other Quirks of Being Sick in America
And some Americashire-related tidbits:
- Excerpts on Expatica, Anglotopia.net, and Transitions Abroad
- A guided walk from Americashire on the Ordnance Survey blog
- Q&A with Just Landed, Expat Info Desk, WOW! Women on Writing, and Wake Forest Magazine
- Reviews on Anglotopia.net, Hometown Pasadena, and IndieReader
- All About the Book on IndieReader
- Radio interview about childfree life on ‘In Search of Fertility’ with Victoria Hopewell
- Americashire is the 2013 Indie Reader Discovery Award winner for travel writing