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.
Sign at an abandoned fast food restaurant
Receipts in shopping cart
Morgan Spurlock
McDonald's Soda Fountain
Empty Refrigerator
Starbucks sign
Beyond Beef Impossible Burger
A receipt for food and drink on a table in a restaurant cafe.
Apple Core In Refrigerator
Hong Kong Light Pollution
Examining recipe ingredients
Roast Chicken In A Petri Dish