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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.

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Robot arm serving ice cream (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Ghost kitchens and digital cafes: How our shared spaces are losing their humanity

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US President Joe Biden visits Nowhere Coffee shop in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on January 12, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox News outrage over Biden’s “smoothiegate” misses the most important point about food inflation

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circa 1945: Four workers sit around a construction site, eating lunch from paper bags and lunchboxes and drinking from thermoses. (Harold M. Lambert/Lambert/Getty Images)

How the lunchpail became — and remains — a symbol of the working class

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Apple Core In Refrigerator (Getty Images/Angelo Cavalli)

WIC at 50: Why the momentous occasion comes at a precarious time for the program

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The Stanley Quencher H2.0 FlowState™ Tumbler (Photo courtesy of Stanley)

How the ex-marketing whiz behind Crocs helped turn Stanley into the “it” cup

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Taylor Swift at the 81st Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images)

Le Creuset fans beware: That’s not really Taylor Swift in those Facebook ads

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Vegetables and fruit in reusable bag at a farmers market (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Grocery therapy: Rediscovering the joys of shopping small

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Bacon Strips (Getty Images/Westend61)

Bacon, butter and Brazil’s national cocktail: Salon Food’s 5 most popular recipes of 2023

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Lunch tray (Getty Images/Comstock Images)

“I do not believe in welfare”: Some state Republicans opt out of Summer EBT program for hungry kids

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Treacherous Christmas blizzard conditions expected in the Plains and Midwest

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Empty airplane seats in the cabin in sunset light (Getty Images / Anton Petrus)

“Incorrectly boarded”: Spirit Airlines placed unaccompanied 6-year-old on wrong holiday flight

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Sugar iced Christmas fruit cake with Christmas decorations (Getty Images/robert reader)

Big in Japan: How American Christmas cakes became a global holiday tradition

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Sotheby's employees view "Love is in the Bin" by British artist Banksy at Sotheby's auction house on October 12, 2018 in London, United Kingdom (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Banksy put up a $600,000 stop sign. Two men with bolt cutters took it down

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Hands holding banknotes (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

A new Minnesota law prevents potential employers from asking about past or current pay

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Committee ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations on Capitol Hill September 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“An absolute fool”: Senator Lindsey Graham ridiculed for political Chick-fil-A selfie

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School lunch at a public elementary school in New Jersey: hamburger; milk, apple sauce and smiley faced french fries. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)

Santa over students: Why Republicans’ rejection of plant-based milk in schools is racially biased

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Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Alton Brown, and Ina Garten (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What 30 years of Food Network Christmases have taught me about the holidays (and myself)

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A 'Join Our Team' sign is displayed outside a Chipotle location on June 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Justice or stigma? The controversial sentence that spotlights America’s bias against fast-food jobs

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close-up of a measuring tape, the concept of losing weight (Getty Images/puhimec)

Shaping morality: How weight loss drugs challenge the myth of thinness as a virtue

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A Starbucks Holiday Cup & A Can Of Bud Light (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

From Starbucks cups outrage to the Bud Light boycott: The “War on Christmas” is now waged year-round

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Empty Fresh Fruit Aisle at Grocery Store (Getty Images/Stefania Pelfini/La Waziya Photography)

“Unnecessary and unacceptable”: Why the American hunger crisis could get worse in 2024

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Thanksgiving Leftovers in Containers (Getty Images/Maren Caruso)

The surprising history of leftovers

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Holiday Maple Glazed Turkey Dinner (Getty Images/Lauri Patterson)

Roasted: Fox News correspondent mocked for blaming $90 turkey on Biden

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Brussels Sprouts (Getty Images/Henrik Sorensen)

It’s not your imagination: Why Brussels sprouts taste better than when you were a kid

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