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Jackie Bryant

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San Diego, United States
As seen in: Leaf Magazines, MSN, The New York Times, Yahoo Life, Forbes, HuffPost, The Independent (UK), USA TODAY 10Best, Los Angeles Times en Espanol, The London Standard, Cosmopolitan and
Covers:  cannabis, labor, travel, arts/culture, wine/spirits
Doesn't Cover: beer, parenting, marriage, real estate
Journalist: 👩‍🏫 SDSU lecturer; 📖 editor @leafmagazines;🎙️ @sandiegomag Happy Half Hour; ✍️Cannabitch, 2x Best American Travel Writing

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I'm the managing editor of San Diego Magazine and an independent journalist on the cannabis beat. My newsletter: cannabitch.substack.com, my portfolio: jackiebryantwriting.com

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How Luigi Agostini Built One of San Diego’s Favorite Pizza Shops

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By Jackie Bryant Verified
| San Diego Magazine Verified
The chef and owner of Luigi’s shares his journey from opening a small bar above Lake Como to lines forming around the block in Golden Hill for his pies. At 23, Luigi Agostini left his hometown of Varese, Italy for America, finding his way to San Francisco in search of adventure and new beginnings. Living with 17 other strangers, he soon began working in restaurant kitchens across the city and eventually found his niche in making pizza.
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From Tia’s Pozole to Top Chef—Claudette Zepeda Books It

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By Jackie Bryant Verified
| San Diego Magazine Verified
The border is a huge part of why San Diego’s food culture took off. The kitchen exchange of chefs and ideas and burning wood and seafood acid parties across San Ysidro built a Mexican-American style that’s unlike anywhere else in the US. That bordertown verve is the topic of conversation for the dinner party this week on Happy Half Hour.
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Why Valentina Is the Most Leucadia Restaurant in Leucadia

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By Jackie Bryant Verified
| San Diego Magazine Verified
Leucadia’s charm is in no small part because someone planted eucalyptus trees for railroad ties, but that wood turned out to be useless. So they just let those peely giants grow and grow, which is why the Leucadia stretch of PCH is now a majestic leafy canopy into what Troy calls “the mood”—not a city, but a state of mind. Spiritually Spanish, no sidewalks, dirt under your toenails, more than its share of people who may or may not use crystals as financial advisors. Leucadia’s pretty grand.
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