Ashlie D. Stevens

Ashlie D. Stevens is Salon's food editor. She is also an award-winning radio producer, editor and features writer — with a special emphasis on food, culture and subculture.

Her writing has appeared in and on The Atlantic, National Geographic’s “The Plate,” Eater, VICE, Slate, Salon, The Bitter Southerner and Chicago Magazine, while her audio work has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and Here & Now, as well as APM’s Marketplace. She is based in Chicago. 

An exterior view of a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
Cracker Barrel wants to become hip. Can it? Ashlie D. Stevens
Sign at an abandoned fast food restaurant
"Super Size Me" at 20: How America's obesity conversation has evolved and stalled Ashlie D. Stevens
Receipts in shopping cart
The new normal? How inflation has wrecked how we shop for groceries Ashlie D. Stevens
Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock, director of "Super Size Me," dies at 53 Ashlie D. Stevens
McDonald's Soda Fountain
The death of the fast-food dining room Ashlie D. Stevens
Empty Refrigerator
SNAP benefits fall short in 98% of US counties. Republicans still want to gut the program even more Ashlie D. Stevens
Starbucks sign
It's been a bad month for Starbucks. Ex-CEO Howard Schultz agrees Ashlie D. Stevens
Beyond Beef Impossible Burger
Lab-grown meat's PR problem offers an opportunity for plant-based products Ashlie D. Stevens
A receipt for food and drink on a table in a restaurant cafe.
Study: Americans' budgets for eating out have dropped by 10% Ashlie D. Stevens
Apple Core In Refrigerator
As the American hunger crisis worsens, Republicans prepare to take a big bite out of SNAP Ashlie D. Stevens
Hong Kong Light Pollution
Missed the northern lights? Auroras expected to continue into this week Ashlie D. Stevens
“You’re mother!”: Maya Rudolph leads “SNL” for a Mother’s Day-themed episode Ashlie D. Stevens
Controlled demolition scheduled Sunday at collapsed Baltimore bridge site Ashlie D. Stevens
Examining recipe ingredients
Can you actually steal a recipe? The answer is legally (and ethically) complicated Ashlie D. Stevens
Roast Chicken In A Petri Dish
The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate Ashlie D. Stevens