Give Your Grilled Cheese Sandwich A Flavorful Upgrade With One Salty Topping
How do you make a melty, crunchy grilled cheese even better? All it takes is one classic and seriously salty ingredient sandwich ingredient.
Read MoreAmber got her start as an intern at New York magazine as a senior in college, contributing reporting and photography to packages like "The Breakfast Manifesto." After graduation, she was hired as a reporter at the New York Post, where she covered the Angostura bitters shortage disrupting Manhattans in Manhattan, super-luxe menu items all over town, literal and figurative underground food purveyors, and cryptocurrency's fledgling entrée to hospitality, also hosting videos illuminating those themes. After a more formal tenure in television at "Inside Edition," she was the editor of Thrillist New York and then the chief restaurant critic and food and drink editor at Time Out New York. In addition to her present work with Chowhound, her name has also appeared in States by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs' Villa Albertine, Page Six, and The New York Times; the latter two as a topic herself.
Amber has a Bachelor of Arts in writing from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.
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How do you make a melty, crunchy grilled cheese even better? All it takes is one classic and seriously salty ingredient sandwich ingredient.
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