Sean Abrams
Sean Abrams builds food stories around how people actually eat and spend, blending fast-food taste tests, grocery-store finds, and kitchen tool reviews into service pieces that read like conversations with a curious friend. He focuses on the small decisions that shape everyday eating, from which limited-time taco is worth a drive-thru stop to which grocery sauces and tools deserve a spot in the cart.
Fast food launches and limited-time menus
Abrams covers fast food as a rolling beat, with close attention to new menu drops, mashups, and limited-time offers. He recently reviewed Taco Bell’s fajita-inspired menu items, using a sit-down taste test to gauge how closely they hit the promised flavors and where they surprise. Across his fast-food coverage he compares items within the same chain, talks through texture, heat, and portion size in plain terms, and highlights what feels new versus what is a small tweak in a familiar format.
His pieces make clear judgments on what is worth ordering, often flagging sleeper hits or under-promoted variations that could be easy to miss.
Grocery finds, sauces, and snacks
Abrams files regular coverage on supermarket products, with a particular focus on sauces, condiments, and snacks that can change the feel of a weeknight meal. He spotlights new or buzzy bottles and packaged foods, often grouping them into themed roundups that move quickly from flavor notes to use cases, like what belongs on eggs, sandwiches, or grilled meats.
His grocery pieces prioritize accessibility, mixing mainstream brands with a few more adventurous picks while keeping the emphasis on how they taste and how they fit into a home cook’s routine.
Kitchen tools, appliances, and home cooking upgrades
Beyond what goes on the plate, Abrams writes about the tools that make cooking easier or more enjoyable. His coverage of kitchen gadgets and appliances leans on hands-on assessment and straightforward pros-and-cons rather than technical specs. He highlights gear that simplifies everyday tasks, from countertop tools that speed up prep to devices that help replicate restaurant textures and sears at home. The through-line is utility: he writes for readers who want to cook more or better without overhauling their entire setup.
Cross-vertical experience in lifestyle and service journalism
Abrams has more than a decade of experience as a writer, editor, and content strategist across lifestyle and service outlets, including major health, fitness, and men’s interest brands. He has held senior editorial roles focused on audience growth and engagement, experience that informs how he frames food stories around reader questions and search-driven curiosities. In addition to his work at the food masthead, his bylines span topics such as fitness, running, and general lifestyle advice, which gives his food writing a broader view of how eating fits into health, leisure, and everyday life.
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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.