Michael Aaron Gar­diner is an award-win­ning week­ly food writer (2018 San Diego Press Club Award; 2019 Soci­ety of Pro­fes­sion­al Jour­nal­ists Award) for the San Diego City­Beat and con­trib­u­tor to the San Diego Union-Tri­bune. He writes the San Diego Food and Trav­el blog sdfood​trav​el​.com and cohosts The Art of Spoon­ing pod­cast on the Spe­cial­ty Pro­duce Net­work. Gar­diner also prac­tices busi­ness law and lit­i­ga­tion in San Diego.