ALL ARTICLES BY Kate Eplboim

Kate Eplboim is a travel and food writer. Over the last five years, she has cultivated her passion for travel, environmental journalism, and gardening. She is a native of Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter at @kate_eplboim.

karen tartt with a starfruit cocktail

Meet the Texas Bartender Making Migraine-Free Cocktails

How do you make a piña colada without pineapple? San Antonio, Texas bartender Karen Tartt has figured out a way. And even better? Her cocktails don’t involve a hangover headach
Rhiannon Menn making lasagna

Lasagna Love: A Dish that Became a Movement

So you make a good lasagna. And you decide to help out a few neighbors in hard times. Would you ever have guessed your idea would spread to 1,000 cities?

RED DOOR desserts: Changing Women’s Lives One Cookie at a Time

Out of a Covid shutdown, comes renewal and inspiration for formerly homeless women in Sacramento, through baking and the ingenuity of one impassioned CEO.

A Story in Every Tuk Tuk Box

As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. So when the pandemic shut down day-to-day operations at California-based charity Courageous Kitchen, a food education organization serving asylum seekers and refugees in Thailand, Christy Innouvong-Thornton and her business partner Beatriz Aurelio-Saguin knew they had to do something else to raise money and awareness for…