C. Morris
School
Western Washington University, Franklin University Switzerland
Expertise
Food History, Vegetarian Cooking, Cooking Tips
- Caitlin has taught writing, literature, and research at colleges and universities for over seven years.
- She co-hosts "Special Lady Day" — a podcast about rad women in history — with listeners from over 40 countries.
- Throughout her career, she has served as an editor or reader for Belletrist Magazine, Coffeetown Press, and the Bellingham Review.
Experience
Caitlin has been a writer and editor for over ten years, focusing on culture, history, and communications. Along with writing for Tasting Table, she is a Senior Adjunct Professor in the English Department at a Seattle-area college. Her fiction has appeared in Ghost Parachute, the Jersey Devil Press, Halfway Down the Stairs, and The Copperfield Review Quarterly's historical fiction anthology, Made by History. She is an avid home chef and draws from her experiences working in coffee shops and restaurants, living on the border between Switzerland and Italy, and traveling around Europe. She hopes to one day learn Gujarati cooking to make her mother-in-law proud.
Education
Caitlin holds a master's degree in writing from Western Washington University and a certificate in editing from the University of Washington. She earned a combined bachelor's degree in literature and comparative literary and cultural studies from Franklin University Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland.
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Stories By C. Morris
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Our solar system's two coldest, darkest, murkiest planets — Uranus and Neptune — hide a glittering secret.
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No matter its name, the enormous clusters of plastic debris floating in the Pacific Ocean are threats to marine life and contributors to climate change.
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Pig toilets date back to ancient China but still exist today. This archaic form of toilet had pigs perform a duty that was may seem gross but served a purpose.
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Picking up good vibrations is all very well and good, and maybe you like to hum that or another tune. But what if the hum you're hearing doesn't have a source?
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As advanced as technology seems these days, the plain fact is that there are still mysteries in the natural world -- and some of them can be fatal.
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Most people would agree there's such a thing as right and wrong. Doing the wrong thing sometimes spurs an emotional reaction to make it right somehow.
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John Wayne is one of the most iconic hardmen on the silver screen. During the Cold War, that image was put to the test when Stalin tried to kill the cowboy.
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The ubiquitous drinks coaster sits humbly at your local bar waiting to hold your drink. Yet, the history of this little friend has to do with bugs and ads.
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On November 15, 2017, Sydney Loofe readied herself for her second date with a woman named Aubrey she'd met on Tinder. Here's the story of the Dating App Killer.
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There's a certain science when it comes to human beings coming together in a city -- supplying safe water, hazard-free boulevards, and pest control.
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Idioms enter language in many times and many different ways. Historical context can be important -- the when and why of a phrase that's been handed on.
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Then as now, a lavish lifestyle might be an indicator of great financial success. Then as now, it also might hide enormous amounts of indebtedness.
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Aw! Puppies, right? Adorable little furballs that tug at the heartstrings and capture our attention. Is there a point at which they're most, well, puppy-ish?
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When someone beloved disappears, it's more than a mystery -- for those left behind, it's often a tragedy, and one that might never reach closure.
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Although the justices release opinions regarding rulings by the Supreme Court, there's still an air of mystery about how and where it functions.
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Perhaps it's no surprise that the history of various cocktails are a little fuzzy, with numerous origin stories that may or may not agree with one another.
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One of the challenges of learning a language is coming to understand, and use correctly, specific turns of phrase -- idioms, some of which are ancient.
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It turns out that creating a seedless watermelon is akin to creating a mule, breeding two incompatible species to produce a sterile hybrid.
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Many aspects of the life of Joe Exotic captured the attention of viewers when the Netflix series "Tiger King" premiered. One was his double marriage to two men.
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Peterson was the subject of the Netflix miniseries The Staircase, which documented his eventual conviction and imprisonment for his wife's murder.
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One aspect of Jefferson's life had historians quibbling for nearly two centuries was the nature of his relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman.