Jen Karetnick
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jen Karetnick is an award-winning food writer, dining critic, and lifestyle journalist. The author/co-author of 20 books, including four cookbooks, she lived and worked on a historic mango grove in urban Miami for 20 years before moving to another historic Miami home located within a bird sanctuary. Her articles, essays, interviews, and more appear in publications including AllRecipes.com, TheAtlantic.com, HuffPost, Miami Herald, NPR, Shondaland, Southern Living, USA Today, and Women's Health & Fitness. An avid cook and gardener, she co-writes the garden-to-table newsletter Dishtillery with her sister. Karetnick holds two MFA degrees, one in poetry and one in fiction, and her creative work is also widely awarded and published. For more, see her on Instagram at @JenKaretnick, on Twitter at @Kavetchnik, or visit her website at jkaretnick.com.
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