Marina S.

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Location
Portland, Oregon
School
University of Missouri-Columbia
Expertise
Immigrant Kitchens, Adventurous Eats, Spontaneous Travel
  • Marina's memoir "30 Before 30: How I Made a Mess of My 20s and You Can Too," features her mother's handwritten recipe for her favorite dish, Olivier salad.
  • She loves dining solo and writes about it in her LA Magazine essay, "Why You Should Eat Dinner Alone in L.A. at Least Once".
  • Marina is currently working on eating her way through every pizza shop in Portland, arguably the best pizza city in the country.

Experience

Marina Shifrin is an award-winning collaborative writer with an eclectic background in all things comedy. Born into a voracious immigrant family, Marina grew up at the kitchen table. She got her start working in, and writing about, the restaurant industry before eventually moving to Taipei, Taiwan for a journalism job. In Taiwan, she fell in love with the night markets and street food culture and has since found a close second in Portland's Food Pod scene. She recently made a pilgrimage to Singapore where she spent the majority of her trip at the Michelin-rated Hawker Stalls and is already itching to go back. When she's not writing, she's plucking and pickling veggies from her overgrown garden to push on neighbors, family, and friends.

Education

Marina graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri with a bachelor of journalism and a minor in business.

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