In August 2011, I left my position as news features editor at the National Post to become a freelancer. I have since written for the Toronto Star, The Grid, Toronto Life, OpenFile, Canadian Business, Imbibe, CityBites and Sharp.

My specialties include the arts, local happenings in Toronto, food and booze. In another life I’d have been a linguist or anthropologist, and my very favourite stories to work on take the latest in academic research about the human animal and translate it into something that I hope is pleasant and engaging to read. (Examples here, here, here and here.)

I continue to serve as the Post’s booze columnist (my Happy Hour column runs Saturdays in the Weekend Post section). And I’m excited to be involved with Gastropost, an initiative of the Post that aims to create an engaged community of Toronto food lovers.

My interests include lo-fi photography using cheap plastic cameras, Zen Buddhism, eating like a caveman and filing clean copy on time. My booze blog is That Sweet Burn and it teaches you how to win at drinking.

Contact: amcdo {dot} TO {at} gmail {dot} com

Or by phone: six four seven, five hundred, sixty-seven twenty-two

The ideal mailing address for the moment (booze, books, party invitations and other swag welcome):

Adam McDowell
c/o Gastropost
301 – 411 Richmond St. E.
Toronto, ON
M5A 3S5
CANADA