Selena Singh-Russell
Selena Singh-Russell distinguishes herself through her unique integration of health expertise into food journalism, bringing an occupational therapist's perspective to culinary analysis that most food reporters lack. As a food news writer for The Daily Meal, she consistently examines food preparation methods and ingredients through a wellness lens that informs her reporting.
Food Industry Analysis
Singh-Russell investigates commercial food preparation practices with particular attention to ingredient selection and cooking methodologies. Her reporting on "The 4 Cooking Oils Arby's Uses For Its Famous Fries" demonstrates her focus on revealing behind-the-scenes culinary decisions at major restaurant chains. She examines how food service establishments balance flavor, cost, and health considerations in their cooking processes.
Health-Focused Culinary Reporting
Her occupational therapy background informs her distinctive approach to food journalism, allowing her to evaluate dishes and ingredients through both culinary and wellness perspectives. This dual expertise enables her to analyze how cooking methods affect nutritional outcomes in ways that generic food reporters typically overlook. She connects food preparation techniques to potential health impacts without sacrificing culinary appreciation.
Cross-Platform Food Coverage
Singh-Russell extends her food journalism to Women.com, where she contributes content that aligns with her health-conscious culinary perspective. Her writing appears across these platforms with consistent attention to how food choices intersect with daily wellness practices. This multi-outlet presence allows her to reach diverse audiences interested in practical, health-informed food knowledge.
Consumer-Focused Food Insights
Her reporting consistently translates technical food preparation information into accessible consumer knowledge. Singh-Russell focuses on helping readers understand the "why" behind food industry choices, particularly regarding ingredient selection and cooking methods. She provides practical takeaways that help readers make informed decisions about restaurant selections and home cooking practices.
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Al Culliton
Al Culliton is a writer and historian whose work focuses on the American cocktail as a living part of food and culture, using obscure, historic drinks to show how bars, spirits and cities change. They write reported features that trace how forgotten recipes move from old bar guides back onto modern menus, reconstructing how cocktails originally tasted and explaining how new builds reshape them. Their beat is revived classics, regional specialties and low-proof aperitifs, covered one drink at a time with close attention to specs, technique, glassware and service. They write about cocktails as cultural artifacts tied to specific communities and geographies, using single recipes to explore place, identity, regional traditions and diaspora histories. Across masthead work and recipe writing, they combine primary-source research with present-day reporting from working bars, in precise, accessible prose grounded in technical detail.
Alaina Chou
Alaina Chou stands out for rigorously testing food and kitchen products and turning those hands-on trials into clear shopping advice. She is a commerce writer at Bon Appétit and Epicurious, where she makes newsletters and shopping guides for home cooks. Her beat is food commerce, with coverage of air fryers, meal kits, protein powders, pepper grinders, electrolyte drinks, and cookbooks. She focuses on what is worth buying, how it performs, how it tastes, and how it fits daily routines and wellness. She also writes sale-driven lists and roundup pieces, and she has worked on Bon Appétit’s Feel Good Food Plan. Her reporting is practical, direct, and grounded in product testing.
Amadea Tanner
Amadea Tanner is a food journalist for Daily Meal whose distinct focus is food history, culinary nostalgia, and the way everyday dishes reveal broader cultural stories. She covers canned baked beans, boomer-era casseroles, cowboy trail food, and sailors’ rations to show how preservation, technology, labor, and survival shaped familiar staples. Her beat includes retro recipes, mid‑20th‑century home cooking, old-school ice cream flavors, and vintage cookbooks, treating them as records of household budgets and aspirations. She also reports on kitchen culture and domestic design, from breakfast alcoves and pie safes to milk doors and wall phones. Tanner investigates global dish origins and contested national claims in pieces on haggis and pavlova. Beyond Daily Meal, she has worked across food, travel, and sustainability, contributing to outlets including Atlas Obscura, Beau Monde Media, Yahoo, and Tasting Table.
Amanda Garrity
Amanda Garrity stands out for turning food, holidays, and family traditions into practical service stories that help readers plan specific celebrations. She is a lifestyle editor at TODAY.com and has more than seven years of experience as a lifestyle writer and editor, including five years on staff at Good Housekeeping, where she covered home, holidays, food, entertainment, and other lifestyle news. Her work also appears in consumer titles including Prevention, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Best Products. Her beat centers on event-based menus, holiday explainers, and classic TV and film guides, with clear, list-driven reporting that gives readers specific dates, recipes, viewing options, and simple background for family planning.