Pioneer Press……………………..

Mashed………………………………

On the Minnesota State Fair convenience store that connects the owner to his grandfather; on new kosher Fair foods and how to certify a kitchen; on a youth circus performance // full staff page here

Daily quick-turn news + trends coverage // full staff page here // (writing syndicated to MSN; example here)

Racket MN………………………….

On the Minnesota cheesemonger competing at the wacky national Cheesemonger Invitational tournament

Boston.com…………………………

On why Guy Fieri’s new Mexican restaurant in Boston is so disappointing; on how restaurant staff are responding to the statewide dine-in ban amid the COVID-19 pandemic; on messages in restaurant windows responding to COVID-19 (with photos)

Eater…………………………………..

On the kitchen hardware you need to serve a killer cheese board, according to cheesemongers

Food Tank…………………………..

On the new Regenerative Organic Certified standard; on the need for community-based seed diversity during the COVID-19 pandemic [co-written with Gary Paul Nabhan]; on the social enterprise working to equip leaders to meet UN sustainability goals; on the Minneapolis winery that makes cider from apples they pick from your front yard; on Food Network chef Justin Warner’s perspectives on the food system

City Pages…………………………..

On offering the inventor of Go-Gurt a tube of Go-Gurt (and hearing the story of how he created it) [link is a PDF]

Extra Crispy………………………..

On the classic Danish dessert (and mindbending tongue-twister) rødgrød med fløde; on the poorly-named first successful gelatin dessert powder Bromangelon

Roads & Kingdoms………………

On sfenj, the Moroccan breakfast doughnut that nearly became a Jewish Hanukkah staple

Vox Magazine……………………..

On mid-Missouri catfishing culture and the debate between catch-and-release and catch-for-dinner; on the early 20th-century black chef Annie Fisher and her erasure from (and revival in) local history; on the artistry of plating; on a medical professor’s views on discrimination faced by Native American patients

Plateselector………………………

On Restaurante Last Monkey, an Asian-fusion joint in Barcelona [article in Spanish]

Columbia Missourian…………..

On the barriers transgender people face when seeking health care; on the challenges posed to pharmacists by Missouri’s lack of a prescription drug monitoring database

MOVE Magazine………………….

On a new late-night pizza-delivery window at a popular local slice shop; on the linguistic differences between “donut” and “doughnut”

The Tower Magazine……………

On the virtues of Amba, an Iraqi-Israeli spicy mango condiment 

Boston Globe Opinion Section……………………………….

On the benefits of bookstores at memorial sites