A Food Writers’ Weekend Food Diary

What does a Seven Days food writer really eat? From restaurant previews and pop-up dinners to meal kits and toddler scraps, it’s all about balance.

by Jordan Barry and Kristen Shull July 8, 2025July 22, 2025

This article appears in The Cartoon Issue 2025.

Jordan Barry

Jordan Barry is a food writer at Seven Days. Her stories about tipping culture, cooperatively-owned natural wineries, bar pizza and gay chicken have earned recognition from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia's AAN Awards and the New England Newspaper... More by Jordan Barry

Kristen Shull

Shull is a 2020 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies living in Burlington. She's been making regular autobiographical comics since 2019 and has contributed bimonthly to Seven Days since 2022 (her comic will return in October after her maternity... More by Kristen Shull