About

For years and even before the pandemic occurred in 2020, folks told me I should write a cookbook based on my “food on the road”. Some may  remember the cobbled together hotel room dinners, the sandwiches consumed in our boats on kayak trips and “fancy” chips and dips in the middle of the desert that I’ve shared from my Instagram account (@runwithtweezers). Then? COVID-19 happened and we were all hunkered down at home in the midst of a pandemic. When we food stylists  finally figured out how we would safely return to work in the summer of 2020, my biggest concern was all the ways to keep myself and my family protected. Chief amongst them? Minimizing contact with anyone outside of my husband and peers inside my work bubble. Some of my strategies included driving to photoshoots (as of this writing, I still have not flown), enjoying cooler-packed lunches in cars at rest areas and eating my fair share of homemade meals I prepared in AirBnBs and hotel rooms. 

ROADIEZ magazine was born of that time: weeks upon weeks of practicing necessary isolation while documenting it with my phone. These days, not much has changed. I’m still packing my own lunches and eating prep bowl salads. It’s a lifestyle that’s become quite familiar to me and, truthfully, I mostly enjoy. And here’s the hack: the food is a hell of a lot better. ROADIEZ isn’t a cookbook - it’s a time capsule of the last year of food on the road which happens to contain recipes.

THANKS TO: the photoshoot families in TN/GA/FL that fought tenaciously to stay safe and keep being able to work: Courtney, Tapia, Carlos, Lisa, Stephen, Brandon, Max, Augusta, Shell, Colin, Silvana, Neal, Smokay, Dean, Virginia, Laura, Tiffany, Jason, Nfocus Studios, Refine Studios, Iain, Lauren - there are so many moving parts to a photoshoot and especially one in a pandemic and I’m trying not to leave anyone out. To my two best girls, Keila and Abby - you mean the world to me. Big love to the SpringHill Suites in Lakeland, FL, Plenty for all those mezze plates, Rest Area 7 in Lenox, GA, the countless grocery employees that put their asses on the line every single day this past year, Gigi’s Market in Lakeland - you’re the greatest, Xenia Taler for making melamine plateware look good. To Korena and Emily for cheering me along. Shameeka - for signing on to help refine this crazy idea and knowing my voice and my intention. To Mingus - you’re the GOAT. And to Mike - without whom my career, my life as it stands right now and this zine would simply not be possible. Love you, boop.

- Tami Hardeman