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Shane Mitchell

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Covers:  Food activism, culinary history, profiles, art, music, film.
Writes stuff for a living. she/her/🤦🏻‍♀️ Also Editor at Large for @SAVEURMAG

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Shane Mitchell’s Journalist Portfolio

The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots

The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots

The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots is an episodic nonfiction narrative about consequential food historie…

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Raising Cane - THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Raising Cane - THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

A root word for sugar isśarkarā, meaning gravel or sand in Sanskrit. The related Arabic phrase is sukkar. Fro…

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An Undeserved Gift - THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

An Undeserved Gift - THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

No one can say for sure who carried the first okra pods across the Atlantic. The location of origin is also o…

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Articles

Can Feeding Your Community Change the World? These Vermont Teens Say Yes

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By Shane Mitchell Published on June 12, 2026 Food is more than what’s on the plate. This is Equal Portions, a series by editor-at-large Shane Mitchell, investigating bigger issues and activism in the food world, and how a few good eggs are working to make it better for everyone.
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Where to Eat, Drink, and Shop on the Island of Hawai‘i

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By Shane Mitchell Published on April 28, 2026 This piece originally appeared in SAVEUR’s Spring/Summer 2026 issue. See more stories from Issue 206 here. Of all the islands in the world, Hawai‘i pulls at my heart strings like an auntie strumming her ukulele. It draws me across the Pacific again and again, and there’s always a moment, while passing through the vast lava plain between Mauna Kea and Hualālai, when the arc of the earth presents itself and I hold my breath in wonder.
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Where to Eat, Drink, and Shop on the Island of Hawai‘i

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Eve Plumb Answers the 10 Questions She’s Most Asked 50 Years After ‘The Brady Bunch’ The ’70s sitcom star is still asked the same questions over and over. Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb is sharing her life story in her memoir, Happiness …
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Pen America

2025 - Art of the Essay

Long listed for The Crop Cycle.

James Beard Foundation

2023 - M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing

James Beard Foundation

2023 - Feature Reporting

James Beard Foundation

2022 - Feature Reporting

Nominee

James Beard Foundation

2020 - MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, nominee

James Beard Foundation

2019 - Foodways

James Beard Foundation

2018 - MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award

James Beard Foundation

2017 - Food and Culture

James Beard Foundation

2016 - Food and Culture, nominee