Serena Dai - San Francisco Chronicle - Food
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English - April 11, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsNews Commentary News Business Careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What do bagels and sexual harassment have in common? The food industry! Serena Dai (@ssdai), a senior features editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, has made her name by thinking and writing about all things food - emphasis on ALL THINGS - from the hilarious/inconsequential to the direly serious issues of sexual misconduct and racism. A local journalist in a previous life, she explains how food journalism is not so different considering you usually only eat the food immediately around you.
Countries featured: USA
Publications featured: Eater, DNAinfo, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, NU Intel
Serena discusses bagels (3:18), her start in high school and college journalism plus AP and NYmag internships (11:50), her first jobs at the Atlantic Wire and local journalism at DNAinfo (23:57), transitioning to food journalism with Eater New York (32:28), her philosophy on world building through food stories and restaurant reviews (40:21), her current job at the Chron (48:37), her appearance on David Chang's Ugly Delicious (52:35), a story about a miraculous fall while rock climbing and comfort circles (56:56), her story package on Chinese food in New York inspired by WeChat (1:04:25), and finally the lightning round (1:14:51).
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
The original California bagel hot take - https://nyti.ms/3mBtVys
Serena’s hot take on bagels - https://bit.ly/3218ihy
The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Food in NYC - https://bit.ly/3d7bVJl
The Daigest newsletter - https://bit.ly/3dMU61a
Serena's episode of Ugly Delicious - https://bit.ly/3uFgAIb
Eater’s weekly newsletter from Amanda Kludt - https://bit.ly/3uKGSZN
The Family Meal newsletter - https://bit.ly/3saMFpA
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy newsletter - https://bit.ly/3dWe1uH
Who Weekly podcast - https://bit.ly/3g08Qwd
Time to Say Goodbye podcast - https://apple.co/3mDxLXG
The Ringer’s Guide to Binge-Watching Survivor - https://bit.ly/3wLKBYH
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