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Cynthia Barnes

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  • Writer and Editor, Freelance
  • None, Food & Wine, National Geographic
Colorado, Denver
As seen in: MSN Singapore, Yahoo Life, Aol, Slate, The Toronto Star, Flipboard, Salon, The Boston Globe, The Denver Post, Food & Wine and
Covers:  Travel, food, lifestyle, arts and culture, hospitality, health, tech
Doesn't Cover: Religion, parenting, anything based on those AI-generated "polls" and "studies" that people spam me with.
Words @ Food & Wine, NatGeo, Boston Globe, Toronto Star, 5280, Select Traveler, Denver Post, Slate, Westword, The Discoverer, AAA and more. #binders #mizzou

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Words @ Food&Wine, NatGeo, Boston Globe, Toronto Star, 5280, Select Traveler, Denver Post, Slate, Westword, The Discoverer, AAA Living and many, many more. #binder M-I-Z Get in touch: writeratcynthiabarnesdotcom

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Catering Produces a Lot of Leftovers - This Couple Turned Theirs Into a Brunch Menu

Catering Produces a Lot of Leftovers - This Couple Turned Theirs Into a Brunch Menu

The couple behind caterer and personal chef TBD Foods upcycles their food scraps from events for a brick and …

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Turning Compost Into Creative Ingredients Is Enabling Indulgence at This Denver Restaurant

Turning Compost Into Creative Ingredients Is Enabling Indulgence at This Denver Restaurant

In Denver, Restaurant Olivia and its forthcoming sister restaurant Emilia, put sustainability first both for …

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Native Voices

Native Voices

Seeing destinations through the eyes of a local always provides a richer experience - but perhaps never more …

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Will Noctourism Be 2025's Hottest Travel Trend? - Daily Passport

Will Noctourism Be 2025's Hottest Travel Trend? - Daily Passport

Topping the travel trendspotters' lists this year is "noctourism." So, what is it, and why is it suddenly so …

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Supporting well-rounded engineers - Mines Magazine

Supporting well-rounded engineers - Mines Magazine

At first glance, food, humor, the history of human thermodynamics and the philosophy of the Constitution seem…

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Ten Best Baking Cookbooks of 2024

Ten Best Baking Cookbooks of 2024

Allyson Reedy's 30 Breads to Bake Before You Die is one of several food- and drink-centric books recently rel…

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Why Are Hotel Carpets So Gaudy?

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By Cynthia Barnes Verified
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Most hotel carpets aren’t designed to be deliberately eye-catching, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot going on from a visual standpoint. The role of resort floor coverings is to move guests from the elevator to their room in cushioned comfort, and to soften the noise from footsteps and suitcases. However, in many hotels, a lot of more thought goes into those seemingly random juxtapositions of patterns and clashes of color.
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Mountains and Majesty in Wyoming

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By Cynthia Barnes Verified
| The Group Travel Leader Verified
From its wide-open spaces to its rich Indigenous history and cowboy culture, Wyoming is the best of the West. The territory that would become the 44th star on the U.S. flag in 1890 gave women the right to vote in 1869, earning it the name “The Equality State,” and elected the country’s first female governor in 1925.
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Should Hotels Crack Down on This Annoying Guest Habit?

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By Cynthia Barnes Verified
| dailypassport
Ah, vacation. You sleep in, enjoy a leisurely breakfast, then head to the pool — only to not find an available lounge chair in sight. But there are only a few people splashing and sunning, so this shortage isn’t because of crowding. No, this is because all of the available loungers have been “reserved” by other guests, who rushed out early in the morning to mark their territory with towels and other accoutrements — guests who may not show up for hours, if at all.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Travel features for Missouri Life Magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

A what? j/k Yes, but I've tried to block the experience out of my mind. Wite-Out, ugh.

How is social media changing news?

For the worse.