We Love Our Work: Created by a world-class food and wine writer, this blog leaves readers hungry for more

Before visiting Carolyn Jung’s blog, you might want to grab a snack.

Packed with interesting recipes and original food reporting, Food Gal features gorgeous, high-quality photography that will leave your stomach requesting attention. Vibrant cilantro curls atop a comforting noodle soup. Wisps of foam cloud the top of a tangerine wheat beer. Which is to say nothing of the perfect golden pile of these olive oil potato chips, improbably home made in the author’s microwave. (Click here for the recipe).

Jung, a Guild Freelancer who describes herself as “obsessed with all things ginger, almond paste, and chocolate,” spent 11 years as the food writer/editor at the San Jose Mercury News, earning a James Beard award for her feature writing and even judging the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

These days, her freelance stories appear in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Via magazine, Coastal Living magazine, East Bay Express, and many other publications. She also ghost-writes and tests recipes for cookbook authors.

Last year, Food Gal was awarded second place in the nation for “best food blog” by the Association of Food Journalists.