Great question, great story.

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Rebekah Denn reports (+ a bonus recipe for Orange Spice Shortbread) seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…

I just loved this (the profile, not yet the book.) My read of the day.

Friendly reminder that the deadline to apply to grist's two food and ag writer positions is this Friday, January 5! grist.org/careers/

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FREELANCERS (including, alas, folks newly and unvoluntarily freelancing), I have a story budget, starting at $1/word, for news features about WORKER ORGANIZING. What are we looking to publish under our Striking Back series at Capital & Main? Let me tell you.

Read it through like a page-turner novel even knowing Grace Glassman must have survived (whew!) to write it. Wow!

A story only tanvinhseattle could have written, about a guy everyone wrote about. Beautiful piece. 🍸 seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

Great reporting Lisa Elaine Held. 'Even if the Walmart fortune is truly creating a rising tide toward a more regenerative food system, it may be unlikely to lift the most battered of boats: those small, regenerative, diversified farms selling healthy food to their neighbors.'

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Fellow journos, I’ve a favor to ask.

I’m hoping you can help me spread the word about a new(ish) journalism contest, and yeah, you’re probably thinking: Do we really need another journalism contest?

This one’s different. It’s a worldwide contest, called the True Story Award.
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Buttercream beat is my favorite beat!

ignore the dumb headline; this is a really informative story for those who think it's OK not to tip service workers or wonder why they should

npr.org/2023/07/17/118…

If your tomatoes failed you this year, you can always eat... a handful of tomato leaves? I wrote The Seattle Times about Martha Holmberg's great tips for what to do when your garden gives you too many or too few: seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…

I both love & get humbled when @annehelenpetersen interviews someone I’ve also written about. So interesting to see where she goes with questions & thoughts & more column inches (in this case with @hettymckinnon.) annehelen.substack.com/p/ten…

Trendmasters: When/why did Earl Grey become a novel food flavoring? Obviously it took off big-time after the London Fog latte, but did any one dish fuel its earlier creep up the charts in the 00’s?