I’ve spent over 15 years working in media, reporting on and analyzing America’s food culture. At Eater, I wrote about about Margartiaville and leisure time, investigated what went wrong with Smartfood popcorn, and went deep on the food that makes you gay. I contributed a chapter to the Eater Guide to New York City on how to spend the perfect 24 hours in my hometown, and was the editorial lead for Eater’s Queer Table coverage. I enjoy covering the intersections of food and immigration, business, history, policy, queerness, and just about every way we use food to say something about ourselves.

My work has appeared in Elle, GQ, Slate, Defector, TASTE, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more, and I am the co-author of Basic Witches, and the author of The Book of Lost Recipes and Crystal Clear. My writing has been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award, a Writers Guild Award, and an IACP award.

Outside of writing, I am the Series Editor for Best American Food and Travel Writing. I’ve also taught a class on arts criticism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

I’m represented by Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.