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Courtney Balestier

About

Courtney Balestier is a food and culture writer whose work has appeared in Lucky Peach, the New York Times, Saveur, Gastronomica, and has been anthologized in Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing. She is from West Virginia and currently lives and works in Detroit.

Articles

Issue 84, Spring 2014

King of the Bean People

Some of his seeds are more than 150 years old—one goes back to the American Revolution. For the most part, they still grow as they always have.

By Courtney Balestier

Common Ground

By Courtney Balestier

STILL LIFE WITH CORNBREAD

By the time he got to England, family in tow, he found he missed Southern cooking: "And then, for the first time, it felt okay to explore. In London, cleaning up Southern food from the way it’s...

By Courtney Balestier