She is the author of three books and the recipient of the James Beard Award, which recognizes excellence in food writers and culinary professionals.
[3] She started out her career as an editor and freelance journalist publishing in the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Saveur.
[4] Schenone’s first book was A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances, (W.W. Norton 2004).
[8] Her third book was The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril[9][10] which is the story of Marion Fitzgibbon, an Irish woman and her odyssey to help abused, neglected, and abandoned animals, especially those abused by the Irish greyhound racing industry.
Schenone learns of Fitzgibbon when she adopts Lily, an Irish greyhound, for her son who "needed a dog."