Alison Leininger
Alison Leininger is a freelance writer who has eaten her way from small-town Ohio through France and the Deep South. Years of teaching French, living with a chef and putzing in her own garden have melded into an obsession with local food, farms and the chefs who support them. North Carolina is the first state she's lived in by choice, and since she found out what an agricultural wonderland it is, she's determined to stay.