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Alice Levitt

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

I'm an award-winning restaurant critic and food editor always in search of the next delicious discovery. With more than 15 years experience, I've spent time interning with a whole animal butcher in Vermont, ventured to Xinjiang for cheese, and spoken about pizza at a conference in Calabria. I'm currently based in Virginia, where I'm known as "Alice the Food Lady" on The Don Geronimo Show, but I'm always ready to hop on a plane for a great story.
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Italian tombstone carver Luigi Brusa knew he was dying from silicosis when he had a friend carve his impressive granite tombstone, known as "The Dying Man."

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The Tombstone Sculptor Who Carved His Own Death in Granite

Nestled in Vermont’s Hope Cemetery, ‘The Dying Man’ tells the tragic tale of the area’s Italian gravestone carvers.

By Alice Levitt
True Treats’ Yesterday’s Medicine sampler has healing sweets, each formed in a candy mold from the 1920's.

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This Sweet Shop in West Virginia Traces the Healing History of Candy

Susan Benjamin sells treats that were once considered medicine.

By Alice Levitt
Maltese bone cookies are a tradition with a murky past.

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In Malta, ‘Dead Men’s Bones’ Are a Sweet, Spiritual Tradition

The cookies are just one way that the island nation remembers the dead.

By Alice Levitt
In Xinjiang, the cheese-making process has changed little in centuries.

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The Life-Giving Properties of One of the World's Oldest Cheeses

In Xinjiang, the living process dairy the way 4,000-year-old mummies did.

By Alice Levitt

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