Victoria Lenga
Specialty Food Tours
Lenga creates detailed food tours organized around specific culinary categories across Hudson County neighborhoods. Her "An Ice Cream Tour of Hoboken + Jersey City" identifies standout dessert destinations with attention to seasonal offerings and neighborhood context. She evaluates establishments based on product quality, service efficiency, and how well they serve community needs rather than pursuing novelty for its own sake.Mobile Food Coverage
The journalist regularly documents food truck events and pop-up dining experiences that bring culinary variety to public spaces. She reported on Food Truck Saturday featuring Angry Archie's Food Truck at Corgi Spirits, highlighting how these temporary offerings expand dining options beyond brick-and-mortar establishments. Lenga's coverage includes practical details about operating hours, popular menu items, and crowd patterns to help residents plan visits.Food Community Connections
Lenga incorporates community food initiatives into her reporting, recognizing the relationship between commercial food spaces and neighborhood wellbeing. She covered food pantry needs for non-perishable items, connecting readers with opportunities to support local food security efforts. Her approach frames restaurants and food businesses as integral parts of community infrastructure rather than isolated commercial entities.Resident-Focused Recommendations
The journalist provides specific, actionable dining suggestions tailored to Hudson County residents' daily routines. Her writing identifies optimal visiting times to avoid crowds and highlights menu items that represent each establishment's strengths. Lenga's recommendations often reference how food spots integrate with neighborhood activities, such as which cafes accommodate remote workers or which restaurants welcome families during weekend outings.4 more food journalists.
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.