
Chef Jasper Mirabile’s co-host is Overland Park, Kan.-based travel, food, lifestyle and design writer Kimberly Winter Stern, also known as the gregarious and cuisine-informed Kim Dishes. A curious adventurer, Stern revels in the fast-paced lifestyle of someone in search of words to be written and stories to be told. Though the bipolar atmospheric changes in Kansas are sometimes challenging, Stern admits there is no place like the Heartland as a home base for her love of travel and food.
Stern constantly scours the country for culinary and destination jewels, never leaving home without her appetite or her vivid imagination. Prolific in eating, writing and discovering, this foodie satisfies an innate desire to sample the world’s gastronomic rainbow by meeting food artisan trendsetters, gaining insight into the culinary points-of-view of everyone from cheese makers, chocolatiers and chefs who set their city’s locavore pace to farmers who are passionate producers.
Stern is managing editor of Kansas City’s “Best Publication 2011,”
435 South magazine, the definitive lifestyle publication of Johnson County, Kansas,and writes for other national, regional and local publications
. Stern is a national blogger where she cooks, styles, shoots and writes about food … and loves to lick the bowl clean.


Chef Jasper Mirabile’s co-host is Overland Park, Kan.-based travel, food, lifestyle and design writer Kimberly Winter Stern, also known as the gregarious and cuisine-informed Kim Dishes. A curious adventurer, Stern revels in the fast-paced lifestyle of someone in search of words to be written and stories to be told. Though the bipolar atmospheric changes in Kansas are sometimes challenging, Stern admits there is no place like the Heartland as a home base for her love of travel and food.
Stern constantly scours the country for culinary and destination jewels, never leaving home without her appetite or her vivid imagination. Prolific in eating, writing and discovering, this foodie satisfies an innate desire to sample the world’s gastronomic rainbow by meeting food artisan trendsetters, gaining insight into the culinary points-of-view of everyone from cheese makers, chocolatiers and chefs who set their city’s locavore pace to farmers who are passionate producers.
Stern is managing editor of Kansas City’s “Best Publication 2011,”
435 South magazine, the definitive lifestyle publication of Johnson County, Kansas,and writes for other national, regional and local publications
. Stern is a national blogger where she cooks, styles, shoots and writes about food … and loves to lick the bowl clean.
