�Victoria also works as a freelance food, travel, and health writer. In addition to being a contributing editor for Eating Well, Natural Health, and Shape Fit Pregnancy, she writes for Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Health, Prevention, The New York Times, and Shape. She also has contributed to The Boston Globe, Community Newspaper Company (for which she was a restaurant critic for six years), New England Wine Gazette, and the New York Post. She has appeared on local and national television several times as a result of her work as a restaurant critic and magazine writer.

Victoria studied classical French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France, and tea kaiseki at Mushanokoji tea school in Kyoto, Japan. She also studied food styling at New School University in New York City. A graduate of Harvard College with a B.A. in Psychology and Social Relations, she lives with her husband, John Riccardi, in Newton, Massachusetts.