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Author: Elina Shatkin

Elina Shatkin is a journalist, radio producer and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. She was previously a senior editor at Los Angeles magazine, a restaurant critic for LA Weekly and an arts writer for the Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in California Sunday, The Believer, Bitch, Smashd, the Jewish Journal and other publications as well as on the radio at KCRW and KPCC. She is the founder of Guzzle & Nosh.

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