Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist and author of LOOK BIG: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. She has written for such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Outside, the New Yorker, and Eater, where she was the San Francisco restaurant critic. An occasional columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, she is the co-author of EAT SOMETHING: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews, which Eater named one of 2020’s Best New Cookbooks. For Alta, she writes about lab-based meat, reusable cups, and other trends for the back page column, "What Next."