Selected Features

Chronic Illness

My School Bully Tortured Me For Years (HuffPost Personal)

Dead Author Birthday Party (Wordgathering)

The Woman in My Head (The Rumpus)

An Autoimmune Love Story (Hektoen International)

Food

The Indigenous Woman Behind South America’s Biggest Male Chefs (Narratively)

Old Testament (Texas Monthly)

The Best Edibles Don’t Taste Like Weed (Engadget, honorable mention, the Society for Feature Journalism’s 2020 Excellence in Features Awards)

Why I’ll Never Stop Baking My Mom’s Groovy Chocolate Cake (Salon)

Cults, Conspiracies, and the Twisted History of Sleepytime Tea (Van Winkle’s)

Chocolate Maker Stays True to His Texas Roots (The New York Times)

Chocolate Experts Hate Mast Brothers (Slate)

Why Chocolate Experts Think the Mast Brothers Are Frauds (Slate)

New American Food Is Un-American (Slate)

Someone’s In the Kitchen With Watson (Slate)

Chocolate, Bioterrorism, and the Birth of Brazilian Funk (Engadget)

The Kings of Artisanal Cheese Wear Lab Coats (Engadget)

The Multimillion-Dollar Junkets That Introduced Americans to Olive Oil (Taste)

This Couple’s Marijuana Wedding Included $8,000 Worth of Cannabis (Forbes)

How Whole Foods Launched a Tasting Program to Boost Its Private Label Products (Fortune)

A Southern Jew Tastes Another Country in New York (The Forward)

Women

Facts of Life (Texas Monthly) 

Embracing the Black Bean Brownie (Racked)

How Women Learned to Love Chocolate (Hairpin)