FoodHawk.com, an exciting new on-line restaurant and culinary guide, has been designed to help people select restaurants and find other area food resources based on their personal interests in cuisine, dining experience, location and price through a searchable Web site. The ability to search for menu items and review menus on-line, on one site, is completely new.

• The distinguishing features of FoodHawk.com are:
• Searchable by restaurant, cuisine, menu items, location, pricing, and special circumstances such as "kid friendly." In short it communicates the "flavor" of each restaurant.
• User friendly - easy to access and use-and includes printable versions of menus, maps and driving directions. It will be uncluttered and free from pop-up ads.
• Targets local resources.
• Designed to promote dining and other food resources through a positive, factual approach.
• A comprehensive food resource guide. In addition to restaurants and menus, it will include information on other area food resources, products and personalities, including:
  • Local farmers' markets
  • Locally produced brand food products
  • Cookbooks by local authors
  • Personal chefs
  • Local food related celebrities
  • Cooking classes
  • Wineries
  • Catering
  • Private parties ... and more.
• Interesting, informative and accurate.
• Single focused - it's all about food!

FoodHawk.com is intended to support food entrepreneurs with a local spirit.

Biographies

	Dr. Judy Hamlin, Founder and CEO A retired university professor and author of 15 books, Judy Hamlin founded FoodHawk.com to offer restaurant patrons complete, informative, accurate, varied and easy-to-access information, in an entertaining and user-friendly online format. Taking advantage of the rapidly expanding use of the Internet as a source for information, she determined that a local and totally food focused web site would be embraced by diners. In addition to up-to-date reviews, the site offers a "time and day" restaurant search and gives users the ability to pre-select dining locations and meals, review menus, search for particular menu ingredients or dishes, and calculate approximate costs. By giving everyone with Internet access instant reviews and facts about restaurants, their cuisines, schedules and other pertinent information, the FoodHawk.com goal is to make dining in any city or region both more enjoyable for patrons and more profitable for restaurants and other food resources. The site's initial markets are Austin and Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas. Judy received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Millsaps College; her Masters in Library Science from Louisiana State University; and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi.
	Karen Dickey, Photographer Karen Dickey has been a professional photographer for 25 years in Austin, Texas. She developed an interest in food while working for the Texas Department of Agriculture, where she traveled extensively throughout Texas photographing crops, livestock, farmer's markets, food processing facilities and food-based businesses. She also did studio food photography to promote the Texas agricultural food industry for magazines, trade publications and advertising.
	Newt Hamlin, Hawk Writer Newt Hamlin is a serial entrepreneur who has served as CEO of companies in the technology, medical, marketing and specialty foods industries. In addition he has been a principal in raising more than $100 million of investment for those companies, and has served as an active board member for other business, community, charitable, academic and arts organizations. Newt currently serves as president and CEO of Optimal Electronics Corp., an Austin based software vendor.
	Dawn Norton, Event Coordinator Dawn has followed a childhood love of food preparation and cooking passed through her grandmother and mother into a lifetime pursuit of cooking excellence. She studied at two fine cooking schools in northern California, Mon Cheri in Sunnyvale and Draeger's in Palo Alto where she took courses from owner/author Alice Medrich. She then founded "A Little Cheesecake Company," supplying wedding and specialty cheesecakes to area businesses, caterers and for private events. As a member of Taster Guild International she has participated in the planning of many wine tasting events as well as the preparation of food for those events. As events coordinator for FoodHawk.com, Dawn will be developing a series of restaurant, community and specialty food and wine events in FoodHawk.com markets.
	Elisabeth Baellow, Menu Hawk Dallas native Elisabeth Baellow received a BA degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003. After an internship with The Art Newspaper in New York City, she worked with the Jones Day and Dewey Ballentine law firms in Austin before being named Office Manager for Optimal Electronics Corp. in 2006. She is famous for spearheading bridal showers, wedding related events, luncheons and the like, and is enjoying the research and administrative work she is doing for FoodHawk.com.
	Molly L. Peck, Chef Consultant Molly has nearly a dozen years experience in the culinary arts, beginning as a teenage caterer and events coordinator. Following graduation from Texas A&M in 2002, she has advanced from being a volunteer cooking class teacher to becoming known as a "Rising Star Chef of Austin." Molly studied and trained at the Texas Culinary Academy and has held positions at Four Seasons/Houston, Sysco Food Services, and several leading Austin restaurants, including The Mansion on Judges Hill, Jeffrey's, and Hudson's on the Bend. She still assists at Hudson's catering events, including a Texas State Dinner at the Governor's Mansion honoring the President of Mexico. Currently Molly serves as an executive chef for Blanks Alaskan Resort Getaway.