Ashlie D. Stevens

Ashlie D. Stevens is Salon’s senior food editor. She is also an award-winning radio producer, editor and features writer — with a special emphasis on food, culture and subculture.

Her writing has appeared in and on The Atlantic, National Geographic’s “The Plate,” Eater, VICE, Slate, Salon, The Bitter Southerner and Chicago Magazine, while her audio work has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and Here & Now, as well as APM’s Marketplace. She is based in Chicago.

Kaitlin Olson as Dee, Danny DeVito as Frank, Charlie Day as Charlie (Patrick McElhenney/FX)

“It’s Always Sunny” goes full “Bear”

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Indian takeout (adamkaz / Getty Images )

Store-bought is fine. This is better

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Cheese dairy master cutting a parmesan cheese wheel at the dairy (Cavan Images / Getty Images )

Trump’s war on Parmigiano Reggiano

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Ice cube tray (Yulia Reznikov / Getty Images)

A chef’s best-kept secret is already in your freezer

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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delivers a speech outlining his foreign policy vision at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

The hypocrisy of RFK Jr. preaching “real food”

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Open fridge door (Olena Ivanova / Getty Images)

The heat is on (but the stove is off)

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Burgers with American cheese (Ali Majdfar / Getty Images)

American cheese has always been enough

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Delicious double burger with french fries (Getty Images/da-kuk)

A better burger, no fuss required

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Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of American family entertainment centers and restaurants with over 600 locations. (gsheldon / Getty Images )

Chuck E. Cheese and the millennial midlife crisis

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New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mamdani eats rice. MAGA melts down

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The makings of stuffed tomatoes (Ashlie Stevens )

Stuff your tomatoes. With burrata. Trust me

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A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens