For more than a decade, Los Angeles-based journalist Carrie Bell has covered food, travel, wine, and pop culture for a variety of publications and websites including TripSavvy, People, Yahoo, Fodor’s, POPSUGAR, Reader’s Digest, and Cosmopolitan. Growing up in Fresno gave her an equal appreciation for Mexican food, chain restaurants, fresh produce, and baklava. In what little free time she has left, she’s a snowglobe collector, cat lady, amateur photographer, yoga practitioner, maker of puns, pro-level ice cream taster, member of Ravenclaw, bike rider, pizza junkie, TV and movie binger, concert goer, board game enthusiast, kitchen experimenter, and so-so gardener.