Serena Dai - San Francisco Chronicle - Food

<p>What do bagels and sexual harassment have in common? The food industry! Serena Dai (<a href='https://twitter.com/ssdai'>@ssdai</a>), a senior features editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, has made her name by thinking and writing about all things food - emphasis on ALL THINGS - from the hilarious/inconsequential to the direly serious issues of sexual misconduct and racism. A local journalist in a previous life, she explains how food journalism is not so different considering you usually only eat the food immediately around you.</p> <p>Countries featured: USA</p> <p>Publications featured: Eater, DNAinfo, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, NU Intel</p> <p>Serena discusses bagels (3:18), her start in high school and college journalism plus AP and NYmag internships (11:50), her first jobs at the Atlantic Wire and local journalism at DNAinfo (23:57), transitioning to food journalism with Eater New York (32:28), her philosophy on world building through food stories and restaurant reviews (40:21), her current job at the Chron (48:37), her appearance on David Chang's Ugly Delicious (52:35), a story about a miraculous fall while rock climbing and comfort circles (56:56), her story package on Chinese food in New York inspired by WeChat (1:04:25), and finally the lightning round (1:14:51).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>The original California bagel hot take - <a href='https://nyti.ms/3mBtVys'>https://nyti.ms/3mBtVys</a></p> <p>Serena’s hot take on bagels - <a href='https://bit.ly/3218ihy'>https://bit.ly/3218ihy</a></p> <p>The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Food in NYC - <a href='https://bit.ly/3d7bVJl'>https://bit.ly/3d7bVJl</a></p> <p>The Daigest newsletter - <a href='https://bit.ly/3dMU61a'>https://bit.ly/3dMU61a</a></p> <p>Serena's episode of Ugly Delicious - <a href='https://bit.ly/3uFgAIb'>https://bit.ly/3uFgAIb</a></p> <p>Eater’s weekly newsletter from Amanda Kludt - <a href='https://bit.ly/3uKGSZN'>https://bit.ly/3uKGSZN</a></p> <p>The Fam