Selected Published Work:
The Washington Post
FOR A SMALL FRENCH TOWN, THIS 15,000 EGG-OMELET IS A 50-YEAR TRADITION Every Easter, a brood of volunteers in Bessières, a small town in southern France, collects 15,000 eggs — not to dye them pastel colors or even hide them for children to find... 
Fodor's
SUPPORT NEW YORK CHINATOWN BY VISITING THESE 20 SPOTS Chinatown is one of New York City’s oldest immigrant communities and chock-full of vibrant, one-of-a-kind businesses, both old and new. As you wander its streets, you will discover memorable meals, unique sweets, cultural treasures, and much more. Sprinkled among the legacy shops run by multigenerational families are ... |
The Los Angeles Times
OUT FROM THE SHADOWS
A Beijing hotel teaches its guests about an ancient Chinese form of puppetry to help keep the art alive. My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet... 
Berkeleyside NOSH
HOW DO YOU MAKE 600 STUDENTS FROM 80 COUNTRIES FEEL AT HOME? ASK CHEF ABIGAIL SERBINS
Executive Chef Abigail Serbins is responsible for serving three meals a day to 600 diners who hail from 80 countries and live at UC Berkeley’s International House. Her goal is to make every student’s favorite dish from their homeland, like a United Nations culinary ambassador. |
KQED Bay Area Bites
REFUGEES' LIFE STORIES DEEPEN THE BREW AT 1951 COFFEE CO.
*Winner AFJ Best Food Essay 2018* When baristas hand over your low-fat latte, you probably don’t consider the paths that brought them to stand across the counter from you. But at 1951 Coffee Company, the café staffed entirely by refugees, baristas’ life journeys are actually the point... 
Edible East Bay Magazine
CRYSTAL WAHPEPAH CELEBRATES NATIVE FOODS IN HER NEW RESTAURANT Alongside a majestic orange oak tree, five figures offer sacred foods from their respective Indigenous cultures: Peruvian potatoes, Mayan corn, Ohlone acorns, and Lakota bison. In the center, a Kickapoo woman holds a basket of squash. The mural, embodies the concept behind Wahpepah’s Kitchen, the first Native American woman–owned restaurant in California... |
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Anna Mindess is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist focusing on food, culture, travel and immigrants’ stories. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, AFAR, Paste Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Edible East Bay Magazine, KQED Bay Area Bites, and many other publications. Anna also works as an American Sign Language/English interpreter and is the author of several books and co-creator of several films about Deaf Culture that are used to train ASL students and interpreters around the world.
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Honors and Awards
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Association of
Food Journalists Best Food Essay - 2018 
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AFAR
Best Feel-Good Travel Stories (#6) - 2017 
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Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards
1st Place -Profile- 2024 
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