Alison Roman is the host of the Home Movies series on YouTube and author of “A Newsletter,” the most popular food newsletter on Substack. Prior to that, she was a columnist for the New York Times Food section and a former senior food editor at Bon Appétit. The author of Dining In, Nothing Fancy and Sweet Enough, Alison has worked professionally in kitchens such as New York’s Momofuku Milk Bar and San Francisco’s Quince.
Originally from Los Angeles, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their son. She has recently opened her own tiny pantry store in Upstate New York called First Bloom. A long-time dream fully realised: a grocery store of her own and a physical manifestation of all her favourite pantry items.
Her platform continues to grow – since her first book Dining In, her Instagram following has jumped from 66k to 778K.
