Journalism
I have been a newspaper reporter, editor, and freelance columnist.
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Pie Towns: 11 Places to Get the Sweetest Slices of the Season (for Our State magazine)
I've written a lot about food, and pie is my favorite topic. In 2021, I had a blast looking for great Thanksgiving pie for Our State magazine.
In North Carolina, Thanksgiving pies — pecan, apple, sweet potato, pumpkin — have deep roots in farms from the mountains to the Coastal Plain. When bakeries wrap these homegrown ingredients in a buttery crust, pie makes perfect…
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The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region (for Food52)
You know how some people are obsessed with stamp collections or fantasy football teams? Well, we're obsessed with cookbooks. Here, in Books We Love, we'll talk about our favorites…
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The stunner and the sausage biscuit: Temple Grandin at the Carolina Meat Conference
Temple Grandin doesn't like the phrase "harvest plant."
It is a livestock-industry euphemism for a slaughter floor, where animals are killed for food…
Photo by Jen Yu
Scientist in the Kitchen: Jen Yu, Photographer, Blogger, Scientist, Cook
Many cooks discover – and when I say, “discover,” I mean “run smack into” - the laws of science once they get into the kitchen.
Not Jen Yu…
