The next announcement was despatched on behalf of Meals Editor Daniel Hernandez:
The suggestions to this month’s rebranding of L.A. Times Food has been overwhelmingly constructive and fruitful, from each our audiences and colleagues internally. With the success of the relaunch, Meals this 12 months hopes to maintain increasing ranks to satisfy our targets. And to that finish, Laurie Ochoa and I are glad to announce that Danielle Dorsey has joined The Occasions as Meals’s assistant editor for guides.
It is a new position for our division, which displays the newspaper’s total dedication to utility journalism and repair to our readers. Dorsey’s mission is to broaden our rising slate of point-of-interest guides that mirror the vary of L.A. cuisines, from eating places, outlets, dishes and drinks to neighborhood-specific maps.
She’ll work carefully with our columnists, employees writers and freelancers, who collectively have already constructed a formidable stack of maps for such native obsessions as classic Mexican restaurants, halal food, dumplings and more.
Dorsey is uniquely certified to guide these efforts. She joins us from Thrillist, the place she served as senior West Coast editor, managing meals, drink and journey protection throughout California and Las Vegas. She has a exceptional properly of up-to-the-minute information on all elements of eating and ingesting in Los Angeles, from the high-end to the road stage.
“Mapped guides could be actually helpful and handy methods to dig right into a neighborhood and possibly spotlight eating places or factors of curiosity that you simply wouldn’t uncover or that folks don’t know to search for,” Dorsey says. “It’s only a useful device to assist individuals discover their metropolis in a brand new manner.”
Earlier than Thrillist, Dorsey freelanced as a meals and journey journalist, writing for publications together with Lonely Planet, Tradition Journey, Essence, Journey+Leisure, Journey Noire and Properly+Good. She incessantly weighs in as an knowledgeable on L.A.’s meals scene, together with previous appearances on “Good Day L.A.,” KCRW’s “Higher LA” and “All Issues Thought-about,” and not too long ago, as a visitor decide on the Netflix sequence “Stress Cooker” (Episode 7 of the present season, for any followers).
Dorsey began in late December and dove proper in. Her first authentic information publishes at the moment, a sample of enticing food specials out there round city in observance of Lunar New 12 months.
A Southern California native, she grew up throughout San Diego and Riverside counties and is a graduate of Cal State Los Angeles. She has fortunately known as L.A. dwelling for 15 years.
What’s Dorsey enthusiastic about overlaying within the close to future? She replies: “There’s so many issues! Talking of drinks, you would argue that L.A. is likely one of the finest locations to attempt mezcal on this planet, so I’m at all times concerned with giving individuals sources to study extra about that, and particularly in methods that may help native Oaxacan communities and different areas the place mezcal is from.”
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