Ann Marie Brown

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Location
California
School
Stanford University
Expertise
Food trends, Restaurant openings, Cocktail culture
  • Ann Marie's passion for all things food-related began in college with a part-time job as a cookie baker at an upscale Los Angeles-area bakery.
  • In her 30-year career as a travel writer, Ann Marie has written about culinary trends, food tours, and restaurant opening. She's also interviewed chefs and food entrepreneurs, including Nell Newman, Jesse Cool, Charlie Ayers, and Crista Luedtke.
  • Ann Marie is one-quarter of the way to her lifetime goal of dining at all of California's Michelin-starred restaurants (22 down, 64 to go).

Experience

Ann Marie Brown began her travel writing career with Sunset magazine in the 1990s. Since then, her byline has appeared in Travel + Leisure, Backpacker, Hemispheres, AFAR, Time Out, Eucalyptus, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Visit California. Whether she's traveling for work or fun, she organizes every trip around what she wants to eat, whether it's tamales in Mexico, egg coffee in Vietnam, poke in Hawaii, or sourdough in San Francisco. Even when backpacking in the Sierra Nevada, she always packs her meals first and her camping gear second.

Education

Ann Marie holds a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University.

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