Carol Colitti Levine

The Side Trek originated in 2006 as Carol’s quarterly column in a New England magazine. Created as an extension of her aversion to driving on highways, it steered readers to explore hidden gems along the byways. This blog continues as a caravan of Carol’s back roads thoughts; her quirky take on everything from politics and business to current culture and books.

BlogisQueen- Carol Colitti Levine:

Carol’s Rez: 

Carol was a Senior Vice President & one of the first women Managing Directors at ABN AMRO, the Dutch Bank. After 14 years as a relationship manager in San Francisco, she ran its Boston office, then retired in 2000 as a Regional Managing Director at the Park Avenue office in New York.

Her book, Table’s Edge, was published in 2005. It is an anecdotal history of Paradise City’s culinary hey day with kitchen secrets of the Pioneer Valley’s restaurateurs’ intertwined stories and proprietary recipes.

Then The Side Trek. 2006-2009 magazine column. 2010 blog.

BlogisTech-  Ben Levine. Account Executive. Ogilvy, New York.  NYU ’11.
BlogisPhotog-  G. Levine, MD. Medical Director. Baystate Children’s Hospital.

Click to read Daily Hampshire Gazette’s Blogspotter  article about Carol’s blog.

Here are excerpts:

“Fans of CNN news commentator Jack Cafferty and his on air blog, the Cafferty File, have likely heard him share the comments of a local woman, introducing them by saying: ‘Carol in Northampton, Massachusetts, writes.’ The Carol he refers to is Carol Colitti Levine, who frequently weighs in…

Levine also has a blog of her own, The Side Trek. Along the way, Levine shares her perspectives on business, books and cooking, serving up a range of posts from an exhibition of Edward Hopper’s work at the Whitney, Cyber Monday, Tiger Woods to Skippy Hallow about how she hates Halloween, and StuffingtonPost, which describes her family’s Thanksgiving celebration.”

What happened to Recipe Detours?  recipedetours.com