Selected Writing
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Meat &
Alternatives
How This Impact Investor Is Generating Double Digit Returns Cleaning Up The Seafood Business (print, cover feature September 2020)
Meet The Secretive Billionaire Who Makes McDonald’s McNuggets, Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers And More (September 2020)
Exclusive CEO Interview: Smithfield Pushes To Be America’s First Carbon-Negative Meatpacker (September 2020)
The Cost of Being Essential From Inside a Poultry Plant (April 2020)
Going Local: The Case For Bringing America’s Meat Supply Closer to Home (May 2020)
Fears of A Meat Shortage Are Rising. The Threat is Far Less Likely. (April 2020)
Hazard Pay for farms and slaughterhouse workers (March 2020)
Impossible Foods Braces for Coronavirus Volatility (March 2020)
A Flavor Expert Explains the Engineering Behind Plant-Based Meat (February 2020)
At Burger King, the 3G Capital Model Actually Worked (print, April 2019)
Plant-Based Protein Comes To Burger King: Meet The Impossible Whopper (exclusive, April 2019)
This Bioengineering Startup Just Raised $90 Million to Make Your Veggie Burger Taste Better (February 2019)
America’s Biggest Private Company Reveals its Plans to Get Even Bigger (October 2018)
Tyson Invests in Lab-Grown Protein Startup (exclusive, January 2018)
How Famed Butcher Pat LaFrieda Ditched Wall Street and Built A $200 Million Business (October 2017)
Why Steakhouses Are Obsessed With Beef From This 97-Year-Old Family Business (print, October 2017)
Sustainable
Farming at Scale
Money Is Pouring Into Greenhouse Tech. Its First Business To Go Public Is Far From Ripe. (January 2021)
With $87 Million In Fresh Funding, Lettuce Grower Gotham Greens Plots Greenhouse Expansion (November 2020)
Can Loans Tied To Soil Health Save Agriculture? A New $250 Million Fund Wants To Find Out (September 2020)
Vital Farms Blockbuster IPO Proves Wall Street Has An Appetite For Sustainable Farming (August 2020)
How Whole Foods Favorite Vital Farms Made Pasture-Raised Eggs Mainstream (print, May 2018)
Restaurants
Why Fast Food’s Smartest Operator is Expanding When Business Is Terrible (July 2020)
In Pictures: New York City Restaurants Fight To Survive (April 2020)
How Food Delivery App Phenom Jason Wang Is Reinventing Fast-Casual Dining (September 2020)
Crippled By Coronavirus, Waffle House Faces A Harsh Reality: Exclusive Owner Interview (March 2020)
Exclusive interview with In-and-Out billionaire, Lynsi Snyder (print, cover feature, October 2018)
Entrepreneurs
Instacart Survived Covid Chaos — But Can It Keep Delivering After The Pandemic? (January 2021)
In The Time Of Coronavirus, Daily Harvest Is Reinventing Mealtime For A Generation That Hates To Cook (March 2020)
Exclusive: Utz CEO Talks Family History and Company’s Pending IPO (August 2020)
Tempest In A Tea Bottle: Billionaire GT Dave Brewed A Fortune (And Plenty Of Bitterness) From Kombucha (print, May 2019)
The 13 Siblings Who Saved Their Family By Creating A $300 Million Startup From Their Dying Dad’s Protein Bar Recipe (print, May 2019)
Fresh Fanatic: Private Equity Spoiled Natalie’s Juice Company. Then The Founder Rebottled It Into A $140 Million Success (print, February 2019)
The World’s Most Successful Caviar Entrepreneur Is A Scrapyard Operator In Wisconsin (print, December 2018)
This Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino's And Papa John's (print, May 2017)
Food Business
Wine & Spirits
The James Bond of Wine: How Jean-Charles Boisset Built A $450 Million Empire In California And Burgundy (print, February 2020)
Just How Big Is Natural Wine In America? (May 2019)
The Inside Story Of How Michael Jordan And Four Other NBA Owners Launched The Super-Premium Tequila Brand Cincoro (exclusive, September 2019)