Howie Southworth

Howie Southworth is a food and travel writer who explores how food reveals the character of a place and the people who pass through it. He is the author of several popular cookbooks, including Chinese Street Food, A Taste of Alexandria, and the forthcoming Hemingway’s Spanish Table. His short-form writing series appears on Salon, starting with “I Drank Like Hemingway in Hong Kong.” His work blends travel writing, literary history, and practical cooking, pairing on-the-ground reporting with recipes designed for real home kitchens. Readers come to Southworth’s books for both guidance and story, for food that works and context that matters. He writes for curious home cooks, armchair travelers, and readers who want their meals to be meaningful as well as delicious. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and travels frequently in search of good food, good stories, and the connections between them.