Kayla Stewart

Kayla Stewart is an award-winning food and travel writer. She is a columnist at The Bittman Project, and her work has been featured in theNew York Times, Southern Foodways Alliance, theWall Street Journal, theWashington Post,Condé Nast Traveler,Bon Appétit,Travel + Leisure, Eater,Texas Monthly,and others. She is the co-author, with Emily Meggett, ofNew York TimesbestsellerGullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island.

Kayla served as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia and was awarded the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship. She was a guest speaker at the 2021 Southern Foodways Alliance Fall Symposium, and her piece, “A Harlem Restaurant That’s Withstood Gentrification, a Pandemic and Time” received a notable mention in the 2021 edition ofBest American Food Writing. Kayla is part of the adjunct faculty at New York University, where she teaches a course on food writing.