Anna Mindess is a multi-award-winning freelance journalist who writes about food, travel and culture. She is a regular contributor to The Chocolate Professor, The Cheese Professor, Berkeleyside, and Edible East Bay Magazine, and has written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, AFAR, Fodor’s, and Gastro Obscura. She is also an ASL interpreter and loves to connect her two careers by writing about Deaf-owned restaurants around the world.