Brice Tucker
Brice Tucker covers the food beat for the Greeley Tribune, with a focus on how individual eateries and food businesses work day to day. He brings readers inside specific places, showing what they serve, how they are set up, and what a visit is like in practical terms. His pieces are service-minded, giving clear detail that helps people decide if a spot fits their tastes and routines.
Inside Edison’s Ice Cream
One of Tucker’s signature pieces looks at Edison’s Ice Cream in downtown Greeley, using the “see inside” frame to walk readers through the shop.
He shows the interior and layout, giving a sense of how the counter, seating and flow come together during a visit. The story grounds the shop in its immediate surroundings and spells out what guests can expect when they step through the door.
Within that coverage, he highlights the specific offerings that define Edison’s, from the ice cream itself to how it is presented and ordered. He pays attention to the menu and choices, making it clear what kind of experience the shop is built to offer.
The emphasis is on concrete detail rather than critique, keeping the focus on what is there and how it works.
Food businesses as neighborhood fixtures
Tucker’s food coverage treats restaurants and dessert shops as working businesses that are part of the local streetscape. He writes about them not only as places to eat but as storefronts that shape how people move through and use downtown spaces. That perspective makes his pieces useful to people tracking how the local food scene grows and changes.
His reporting balances the appeal of new or notable spots with the basics that matter to everyday customers, such as what is on offer and how easy a visit will be. He gives enough operational detail for readers to understand the rhythm of a place, while still keeping the story accessible to anyone who is simply curious about trying somewhere new.
Practical, service-focused framing
Across his work, Tucker writes in a straightforward, descriptive style that keeps the subject in front. He uses clear language and specific observations to answer basic questions a potential customer would have about a food venue. That includes what the space looks like, what the core products are, and how the visit will feel from arrival to order to departure.
This approach makes his food coverage well suited to stories that need a concrete, on-the-ground picture of how a restaurant, café or dessert shop operates. He is less interested in broad trend essays than in close looks at individual locations, and his pieces read as practical guides anchored in real places and their day-to-day details.
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Aaron Guerrero
Aaron Guerrero is head of the digital department at Miami’s Community Newspapers, where he pairs restaurant coverage with community-facing content. He focuses on how Miami-area restaurants evolve, celebrate, and experiment through new concepts, menus, and neighborhood-focused dining experiences. He reports on restaurant openings, such as an Italian food hall at Plaza Coral Gables, new executive lunch menus, and wood-fired Latin steakhouse brunches, explaining what sets each venue apart. He also covers awards, like a Wine Spectator honor for an Italian chophouse, and events that turn dining rooms into social hubs. His bylines extend to features on sports-themed gatherings, civic renamings, local visits to restaurant programs, sponsored community pieces, and official notices. His work is straightforward and descriptive, helping readers and local businesses connect around specific openings, promotions, and dining experiences.
Aarron Fleming
Aarron Fleming reports on how courts, jails and public safety systems work over time. He is a reporter at The Daily Memphian covering public safety, the local court system, suburban news and business developments in North Mississippi. His work follows trials, sentencing, appeals, plea deals and judicial decisions, including major cases tied to Tyre Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also covers jail conditions, inmate deaths, crime data, prosecution units, trafficking, shootings and public-order incidents. His suburban reporting examines cannabis businesses, restaurant openings and how commercial growth affects communities such as Olive Branch. Fleming previously covered education in the same newsroom. He uses clear, unadorned prose to explain legal steps, deadlines, institutional problems and the political, commercial and community effects of public-safety decisions.
Alana Al-Hatlani
Alana Al-Hatlani is a food writer and editor who treats recipes, restaurants, and food features as ways to explore culture, community, and the business of eating. She works on the food team at Southern Living, overseeing and contributing to print recipes and reported features. Her pastry-focused, restaurant-tested perspective comes from time in restaurant and bakery kitchens. She helps plan and write monthly food packages, including “The South’s Most Treasured Desserts,” and wrote “8 Summer Recipes Our Editors Make Every Year.” She also writes recipe tips, ingredient explainers, restaurant guides, and reported stories about workers, owners, and communities. Her subjects include regional specialties, dining scenes, kitchen basics, and food industries. Her work has appeared with OpenTable and Yahoo. She reports on the ground, explains techniques clearly, and connects specific dishes and places to larger stories about food and livelihood.
Alana Edgin
Alana Edgin is a business reporter whose strongest focus is food, restaurants and consumer-facing businesses. She works at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and has also had work syndicated across AOL and Yahoo News. She covers new openings, closings, expansions and franchise growth, along with retail, health, services, corporate news, data incidents, business support programs and sponsorships. Her reporting includes detailed roundups of new restaurants and businesses, coverage of El Pollo Loco’s opening, and stories on burger trucks, dessert shops, Vietnamese sandwich restaurants and gourmet markets. She also contributes to food and drink reviews, including fall coffee and jerky comparisons. Edgin reports with practical “what, when, where” details, structured comparisons and clear explanations of how offers, partnerships and business changes affect consumers and the local economy.