{"id":162127,"date":"2022-06-28T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=92768"},"modified":"2022-07-01T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:52:21","slug":"alumna-whips-up-career-as-l-a-times-food-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2022\/06\/28\/alumna-whips-up-career-as-l-a-times-food-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Whips Up Career as &#8216;L.A. Times&#8217; Food Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_162592\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162592\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/stephanie-breijo-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Hungry for small classes and more facetime with teachers, Stephanie Breijo '09 studied journalism at Mary Washington. Now, she covers Los Angeles' culinary culture as a food writer for the L.A. Times.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/stephanie-breijo-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/stephanie-breijo-150x225.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/stephanie-breijo.jpeg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-162592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hungry for small classes and more facetime with teachers, Stephanie Breijo &#8217;09 studied journalism at Mary Washington. Now, she covers Los Angeles&#8217; culinary culture as a food writer for the L.A. Times.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Savory meatball subs smothered in mozzarella. Sizzling birria tacos with spicy salsa. Smoky barbecue brisket with all the fixings. And a rainbow of Italian cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Just <em>try<\/em> looking at Stephanie Breijo\u2019s Instagram on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is universal,\u201d said Breijo, a <em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>food writer who graduated from the University of Mary Washington in 2009. \u201cIt\u2019s a lens everyone sees the world through, whether they\u2019re aware of it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporting takes her to every corner of L.A.\u2019s restaurant community, from pop-ups in Koreatown to bistros in Santa Monica. But before she began highlighting epicurean happenings throughout the city and curating cuisine on social media \u2013 an art that didn\u2019t even exist when she was a student \u2013 she acquired the recipe for great storytelling at Mary Washington. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/alum-whips-up-career-as-l-a-times-food-writer\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savory meatball subs smothered in mozzarella. Sizzling birria tacos with spicy salsa. Smoky barbecue brisket with all the fixings. And a rainbow of Italian cookies. Just try looking at Stephanie Breijo\u2019s Instagram on an empty stomach. \u201cFood is universa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":162612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[25169],"class_list":{"0":"post-162127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-department-of-english-and-linguistics","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}