Zester Daily is a collection of experienced journalists working to provide our readers with the latest news and information from around the globe about all aspects of food and wine. As independent professionals committed to quality journalism and high ethical standards, we follow our instincts and interests wherever they take us. The result is a constant flow of fresh, lively stories found nowhere else.

Food and wine are soulful pleasures. What we eat and drink also has a direct effect on our personal health, the health of our environment and the health of our society. Advertiser-supported, independently owned and distributed without fee, Zester Daily gives this rich topic the close, uncompromised attention it deserves.

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In addition to the writers and photographers listed on the home page, the Zester Daily editorial team includes:

Robin Rauzi

Robin Rauzi spent 13 years as writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times on the arts and entertainment, travel and opinion desks. Born and raised in central Ohio, she moved to Los Angeles to attend the USC film school, and stayed for the weather. (She later earned a master's degree from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.) In addition to working at Zester Daily, she runs Get Rauzi Editorial Services. She lives in L.A. with her partner Amy, geriatiric cat Dorothy and an avocado tree that is the envy of everyone.

Karen Chaderjian

Karen Chaderjian has spent 20-plus years at the Los Angeles Times, working in the sports and the arts and entertainment sections. She also edits copy for Truthdig.com. Among the books she has edited are "Suze Orman’s Workbook for The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" and "The Los Angeles Lakers: 50 Amazing Years in the City of Angels." She also has served as the consulting editor for TheLatinaVoz.com and earned her master’s degree in social work. Her father Aram, who once co-owned Chad’s Luncheonette in Chicago, inspired her adventures in good eating.

Wynne Everett

Wynne Everett is a Chicago-based freelance editor and writer. A native of central Ohio, she grew up eating vegetables from her grandparents' farm and beef bought on-the-hoof at the county fair. She's now a vegetarian. Her 20-year career in newspapers has included stints as a courthouse bureau reporter, education writer, city editor, business editor and food section contributor. In her last job at the suburban SouthtownStar, she also blogged her experience as a Chicago locavore -- a project that made her a devoted fan of Wisconsin raw-milk cheese and farm-fresh pastured eggs.

Margot Dougherty

Margot Dougherty made a lot of quiches and bangers-and-mash in a shoebox of a restaurant kitchen in Newport, Rhode Island before fleeing to New York to become a writer/editor at, successively, Life, People and Entertainment Weekly. After a story on the real Crocodile Dundee, during which fresh-caught kangaroo meat was served under a bat-laden tree in the Top End, she moved to Sydney as an editor of Who Weekly, the Aussie People. She spent the last several years as the food editor of Los Angeles magazine and is now a freelance writer and editor living in Venice, Calif.

Nichol Nelson

Nichol Nelson has worked in food journalism for more than a decade, most recently as an editor with Gourmet magazine. Although she grew up eating canned vegetables and "hot dish" in Minnesota, eight years in New York changed her culinary perspective. She is now a freelance writer and editor in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Tom Trapnell

Tom Trapnell is a graphic designer and illustrator specializing in editorial design. As Editorial Design Director of the Los Angeles Times, he worked with Times staff on three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects and has won dozens of national design awards. Tom has also designed books, magazines, logos, annual reports and websites for numerous corporate clients.

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