Polly Campbell grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, and moved to the Queen City in 1983, after which she immediately got to know the city by shopping for butter bit rolls at the Virginia Bakery and for goetta at a now-closed butcher and by eating at the Clifton Skyline and Graeter's. In 1996, she became the food writer at the Cincinnati Enquirer and began reviewing a restaurant more or less once per week for twenty years or so. She likes a 4-way bean or a Greek salad and two cheese coneys and recommends Graeter's toffee chip or a scoop of caramel with bittersweet sauce.