Editorial Team
About the blog. Girl Meets Food is the top resource for all things food-related. It’s published on the weekdays–no weekends, holidays, or overtime (we like our time off!). We cover not necessarily what’s new and trendy, but rather what’s unique, unusual, and one-of-a-kind. Why should you read Girl Meets Food?
- For honest, entertaining restaurant reviews that could incite laughter with snorting.
- To get the latest on the D.C. restaurant scene so that you can impress your friends with your infinite knowledge.
- To discover unusual foods that you didn’t know about.
- Because if you’re afraid to try it, we’re not!
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Mary “The Baconatrix” Kong, Founder and Editor
Growing up in a family who kept dried seahorses and snake oil in the fridge would unwittingly prepare Mary to create a blog about strange foods, or as she likes to call it–”cultural food diversity.”
She’s eaten brains, swinging beef, and bugs with a side of guac. She eats normal stuff too, like pizza in a cone. If she was made out of marshmallows and this was a Bill Murray movie, you’d be in trouble.
Mary does freelance writing, too. Email her if you’d like to discuss a project!
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Asia “Dynamic Bovine” Camagong, Writer
It probably began the moment she compared her 3-month-old niece’s thighs to Pillsbury croissants. Or when she told her dad she wanted her AOL screen name to be “tofu7.”
Close to her hometown of San Francisco, she’s now eating meals and taking names in San Diego. From a fancy gourmet McDonald’s to a corner street taco truck, her stops prove that love bites. And biting back tastes so good.
If it can be stuffed inside bread, drizzled in a sauce she can only dream of bathing in or sends that top pants button popping off, she knows food has been done right. Follow Asia’s rich, witty tweets on Twitter.
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Lisha “And Cheese” Yates, Writer
Lisha is a true Virginian, bearing an unhealthy obsession with Smithfield ham and Piedmont wines. Born with an appetite for the worldly, she grew up in her potty-mouthed grandma’s soulful kitchen, asked for a bread-maker on her 11th birthday, has lived in Spain, and ate a whole spit-roasted guinea pig in Ecuador.
She gets creative with her own cooking, too–like beer-battered shrimp tacos made with Natty Light and pancake mix. When she’s not working as a consultant, or hunting for the best cheap eats, Lisha is tweeting her dining endeavors and leisurely whereabouts (or at home eating mac n’ cheese, if we’re being honest).
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Amanda Jane “Butterbeer Babe” Cooney, Writer
Amanda Jane is a quarter-life legal eagle-to-be whose cooking will put a smile on your face.
This native Upstate New Yorker started her food adventures in college, drinking amber ale and watching Sunday football, because “crab cakes, football [and beer], that’s what Maryland does.”
She’s tried Caribbean, Ethiopian and Vietnamese fare, even churned her own butter (!), prosecuting Washington’s dining scene with Champagne taste and a beer budget. Find Amanda Jane eating, laughing, living, and drinking good brews on Twitter.
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Kelly “Souped Up” Greene, Writer
As a child, Kelly was founder and president of the “Clean Plate Club.” Later, in college, she ate pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner for six days straight.
Third-generation Washingtonian Kelly has caught, cleaned and cooked her own seafood. She’s seen centers–convention, capital, shopping–rise and fall. And she can probably tell you what restaurant “used to be here,” but she’s never met the President.
Now, this refined (finicky?) fed finds the ways and means to fine dine with a good wine. Follow Kelly’s classy tweets on Twitter.
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Sarah “And the Chocolate Factory” Hall, Writer
Raised on Maryland crab cakes and Old Bay, Sarah is an all-American girl who fell in love with sushi and tikka masala.
She has a torrid love affair with chocolate, including that night with a cocoa-covered cricket in South Carolina.
Sarah loves the Washington dining scene for its American classics, but also for its diversity. When you find her around Capitol Hill discussing politics, history and fashion, be sure to ask her about where to find the best burgers and chocolate. One day, she’ll try foie gras and become an expert on wine pairings. Follow her chocolate-covered tweets on Twitter.
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