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Karen Pinchin

Halifax
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Covers:  business, entrepreneurship, culture, food trends, agriculture, food science, technology, gastronomy
Investigative food systems journalist, teacher & author of Kings of Their Own Ocean (July 2023) | Fmr: @frontlinepbs @columbiajournMA | Tweets auto-delete.

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Karen Pinchin’s Biography

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The granddaughter of an apple farmer and the daughter of a chemist and a physicist, I come by my interests—food science, agriculture, gastronomy, technology—honestly.

I've worked as an writer/editor for The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's and Newsweek International, and currently freelance for magazines and newspapers across the United States and Canada.

I currently make my home in bucolic Fredericton, New Brunswick, and have worked and lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City, Ne…

Karen Pinchin’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Farm-to-Table Opportunity

The Farm-to-Table Opportunity

Consumers crave fresh, local food, and local farmers are eager to fill the demand, but a distribution bottlen…

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Are Rabbits the New Super Meat?

Are Rabbits the New Super Meat?

By all appearances, rabbit could be the food of the future. Touted for years by food activists including Mich…

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Brandon Baltzley: a chef poised between artistry and addiction

Brandon Baltzley: a chef poised between artistry and addiction

When Brandon Baltzley arrived in Washington, D.C., he was unemployed and barely of legal drinking age. A few …

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Talking turkey

Talking turkey

Hunters want to import hundreds of wild turkeys to shoot. Farmers aren't nearly as keen. by macleans.ca on We…

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Any Given Sundae

Any Given Sundae

Ice cream experts know that a cone is never just a cone

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Getting Canadian Farmers to Kick their Foreign Seed Addiction

Getting Canadian Farmers to Kick their Foreign Seed Addiction

Canadian farmers are in a pickle. They've become worryingly dependent on American and European seeds. As the …

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Troubling signs of climate change are showing up on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island

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By Karen Pinchin
| Canadian Geographic Verified
AS THE SMALL PLANE’S fixed wheels descend the last few metres to the sands of Sable Island, I hold my breath. To call this packed strip — with dunes on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other — a runway seems generous. But pilot Debbie Brekelmans takes us down smoothly for her 999th landing on this enigmatic island: a remote home to wildlife, rife with tales of stranded prisoners and violent shipwrecks.
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Beset By Ice: Covering Canada’s most contested corridor

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By Karen Pinchin
| Canadian Geographic Verified
Do you live in the north and have a story about how Arctic icebreaking and shipping affects your daily life? Are you a southern-based scientist whose research depends on access to icebound regions? Do you work aboard a commercial, cruise, navy or Coast Guard vessel and wish there was something more Canadians knew about your work? When it comes to swiftly melting northern ice, we’re in a uniquely consequential moment in history — and Canadian Geographic needs your help.
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Cookbook explores the untold tales and Acadian influences of the American South

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By Karen Pinchin
| The Globe and Mail Verified
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

I own five. So... yes.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Clark Kent

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

When I was an editor, always by email, occasionally on Twitter.