Robin Davis Heigel

Robin Davis Heigel has been the food editor at the Columbus Dispatch since 2002. She is also the host of Dispatch Kitchen cooking segments and specials on the local CBS affiliate, WBNS-TV.

Before coming to Columbus, Davis Heigel was a restaurant critic and food writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. She came to San Francisco by way of Los Angles, where she worked as an assistant editor at Bon Appetit magazine.

Davis Heigel has a bachelor of arts in English and psychology from the University of Dayton. She also has an associate's degree in culinary arts from the California Culinary Academy.

Davis Heigel is the author of three books: Wookie Cookies (Chronicle Books, 1997), Infusions (Chronicle Books, 1998) and The North Market Cookbook (American Foodways, 2008).