{"id":333,"date":"2019-06-21T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/?p=333"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:05:00","slug":"food-and-journalism-kevin-alexander-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/2019\/06\/21\/food-and-journalism-kevin-alexander-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Journalism – Kevin Alexander \u201903"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interviewed by Kevin Torres \u201921<\/p>\n

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KT: What have you done since leaving Trinity?<\/p>\n

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\"\"KA: After I left Trinity, I went straight to journalism school at Boston University and, while there, started writing for Boston Magazine. Immediately after graduation from BU, I continued my schooling by getting a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Emerson College. I became a columnist for Writers Digest and the Boston editor of Thrillist, an online food and drink site. Then I moved to San Francisco, became Thrillist\u2019s West Coast Editor, then Executive Editor, and launched their National Food and Drink edition. From there, I went back to writing full time a few years ago, focusing on restaurants and bar industries. In 2017, I won a James Beard Foundation award for one of my profiles, and sold a book to Penguin Press about the last twelve years of eating and drinking in America called Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution and Its End<\/em>, which comes out July 9th<\/sup>, 2019.<\/p>\n

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KT: What lessons that Trinity taught you that were useful for your career?<\/p>\n

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KA: I would say my Urban Politics class at Trinity was extremely impactful because of the way it colored my thoughts on journalism and how a city gentrifies. Learning about the ways a city changes and how its politics overlap with the development and how all those things blend together was really important to my career.<\/p>\n

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KT: What would you say is your proudest accomplishments since leaving Trinity?<\/p>\n

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KA: Personally, I would obviously say having kids and marrying my wife. From a professional point, I think writing that book because the process took two years and I worked very hard on it. It\u2019s definitely one of my proudest achievement.<\/p>\n

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KT: What would want other alumni to know about you?<\/p>\n

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KA: I would tell them how I utilize what I learned from Trinity and turned it into a professional career. My time writing for the Trinity Tripod helped shape my career, as did working in an internship at a local community newspaper during my senior year, and playing on the soccer team. The chance to try a variety of things at Trinity helped apply to my career in journalism.<\/p>\n

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KT: What are some hobbies, passions, or milestones that you want Trinity to be aware of?<\/p>\n

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KA: Aside from food writing and general journalism, I still play soccer with one of my roommates from Trinity (Stuart Poole \u201903). We co-manage and play for a men\u2019s soccer team in San Francisco. It\u2019s lots of fun, even if we\u2019re getting old.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Andy Kryza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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