Story Scout
Sometimes a Good Story is Better Than a Good Time
Sometimes a Good Story is Better Than a Good Time
Some people collect stamps. I collect travel bugs. Over 20+ years of ill-advised adventures, I have contracted dengue fever in Honduras, battled a blood infection in the Togean Islands, and endured a minor surgery without anesthesia in Mexico.
Undeterred by pesky medical maladies, I tuk-tukked 2,000 miles across northern India, forded a stream in the back of a pick-up truck to make mezcal in Southern Mexico, got tear-gassed during a political uprising in Quito, and hunkered down in Buenos Aires for two months under the world’s strictest pandemic lockdown.
When I’m not scouting stories abroad, I’m cultivating community for social change organizations and writing about food, booze, science, technology, and culture from my home base in San Francisco. My stories have been published in Wired, Vice, The Atlantic, and Saveur, among others. I am available for freelance assignments anywhere in the world.
The Bay Area is Filled with Luscious, Next-Level Condiments. Here are Seven Makers to Know for San Francisco Chronicle
Listen: Get Out of Here With that Corn – Audio interview with LATimes Podcast
Mexico is Phasing Out Imports of Glyphosate and GMO Corn. Supporters Say That Could Reverse Years of Damage from U.S. Trade Policy for The Counter
Expand Your Horizons with These Variations on Chinese Food for SFGate
The Rewards of the Road for Saveur
Want to Understand the Border Crisis? Look to American Corn Policy for The Counter
The Art of Making Mezcal in Oaxaca for Vice Munchies
The Gringo’s Guide to Drinking in Oaxaca for Vice Munchies
An Alternative History of Chicha for VinePair
Thousands of California Home Cooks Have No Idea They’re Breaking the Law Every Day for The Counter
Whiskey Geeks Keep Moonshine Tradition Alive for Wired
We Wanna Be Friends With Bourbon Master, Tom Bulleit for 7×7
Where to Get Your International Street Food Fix for KQED
How Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh Brought a 500-Year-Old Bolivian Liquor to the Bay Area for 7×7
Meet the Solar Eclipse Megafans Who Travel the World Chasing a Blackened Sun for Vice
An SF Couple Saddles up for a Gaucho Getaway to Uruguay for 7×7
Welcoming the Return of the Sun to Lake Titicaca for World Footprints
Want to Understand the Border Crisis? Look to American Corn Policy for The Counter
The Rewards of the Road for Saveur
The Art of Making Mezcal in Oaxaca for Vice Munchies
The Gringo’s Guide to Drinking in Oaxaca for Vice Munchies
An Alternative History of Chicha for VinePair
New Doctor Who Regenerates Fan Base for Wired
Luxury Living at Burning Man for Wired
How a Downed Internet Ballon Produced an Unlikely Love Story for Rest of World
Meet the Solar Eclipse Megafans Who Travel the World Chasing a Blackened Sun for Vice
Oyster Mushrooms Helped Clean Up After California’s Wildfires for The Counter
Engineering Mosquitoes to Spread Health for The Atlantic
Can Big Data Help San Francisco’s Homeless Kids for Vice
An Alternative History of Chicha for VinePair
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