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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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Rosh Hashanah fruit plate with honey (Getty Images/Jupiterimages)

How to update your Rosh Hashanah menu without enraging your family, according to a “Top Chef”

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Pati Jinich | Matzah Ball Soup (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Pati Jinich)

How star chef Pati Jinich celebrates Rosh Hashanah with Mexican flavor

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Soda fountain with drink cup visible at McDonald's restaurant in Lafayette, California, March 14, 2022. (Gado/Getty Images)

Why McDonald’s is ditching its self-serve soda machines

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Small scientists in clean suits examining salami for bacteria (Getty Images/Hermann Mueller)

Food recalls are on the rise. Here’s why and whether you should be worried

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Matt Lucas, Prue Leith, Paul Hollywood and Noel Fielding of "The Great British Baking Show" (Photo courtesy of Netflix/Mark Bourdillon)

“The Great British Bake Off” doesn’t want to learn from its mistakes

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Kneading dough (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

The forgotten art of cooking with your hands

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Pineapple and pickle pizza (Courtesy of DiGiorno)

Pineapple, pickles and polarizing toppings: How a crowded freezer aisle is inspiring “stunt pizzas”

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Fall Starbucks Coffee Girl (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Britney, Pamela and pumpkin spice: What the PSL hatred was always really about

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The Subway sign hangs over the sandwich shop in Annapolis, Maryland, on August 23, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Goldman Sachs enters the $9 billion bidding war for Subway

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An interior view of the world's largest McDonald's restaurant and their flagship outlet in the Olympic Park on June 25, 2012 in London, England. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

How fast-food’s sleek redesign could signal a grim labor landscape

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Working at charitable foundation, packing donation box (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

Time, food and money: With hunger on the rise, here are ways to actually help

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Sign at an abandoned fast food restaurant (Getty Images/dickiedavis123)

Amid growing hunger, Americans turn to fast-food joints — whose workers say they can’t afford to eat

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Toasted slices of sweet potato with cottage cheese, banana and pomegranate seeds (Getty Images/Westend61)

Stop underestimating the culinary potential of cottage cheese (and its lumps)

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Cafe Latte (Getty Images/Claudia Totir)

This summer, I finally surrendered to the pumpkin spice creep

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Volunteer organizing donations in boxes wearing protective gloves (Getty Images/Hispanolistic)

“Criminalizing the Samaritan”: Why cities across the US are making it illegal to feed the homeless

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Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) kneels in a kiddie pool, wears a swim cap with goggles, and fishes with a plastic rod amongst scattered toys and plastic fish in Los Angeles in 1983. (Bonnie Schiffman/Getty Images)

“Larger than life, but still true”: Where Pee-wee Herman fits in the history of American clowns

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Ina Garten (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It’s always an “Ina Garten Girl” summer

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Mitt Romney and hotdogs (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“My favorite meat”: Mitt Romney goes viral in an alien-like ode to hot dogs

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Former US president Barack Obama speaks during day 9 of COP26 on November 08, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

The tragic death of Tafari Campbell, the Obamas’ personal chef, is QAnon’s latest conspiracy theory

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A sign disparaging Bud Light beer is seen along a country road on April 21, 2023 in Arco, Idaho. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Political stunts and an uphill battle: Breaking down Cruz and DeSantis’ proposed Bud Light lawsuits

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Cappuccino with latte art on the table (Getty Images/Alexander Spatari)

Sit and linger: Living a slower life started with changing how I take my coffee

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Jeremy Allen White and Molly Gordon in "The Bear" (Chuck Hodes/FX)

How “The Bear” paid homage to John Hughes and the dark heart of the Chicago suburbs

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks at a campaign rally, Oct. 16, 2022. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Michigan attorney general charges 16 in 2020 Trump fake elector scheme

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Guy Fieri and Anthony Bourdain (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Anthony Bourdain was right about Guy Fieri

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