Zester Daily

{{Short description|Defunct food and wine online magazine}}

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Zester Daily was a food and wine online magazine, published by a team led by Corie Brown, a former writer and editor for the Los Angeles Times.Hallock, Betty, Los Angeles Times: Daily Dish (August 17, 2009). [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/08/zester-daily-now-online-.html Zester Daily now online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827014253/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/08/zester-daily-now-online-.html |date=2009-08-27 }}Scattergood, Amy, LAWeekly: Food News (August 18, 2009). [http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/food-news/zester-daily-launches-a-new-fo/ Zester Daily Launches: A New Food and Wine Website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223010902/http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/food-news/zester-daily-launches-a-new-fo/|date=December 23, 2009}}Liem, Peter, peterliem.com (September 7, 2009). [http://www.peterliem.com/2009/09/zester-daily.html Zester Daily] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126180855/http://www.peterliem.com/2009/09/zester-daily.html |date=2010-01-26 }}Oliver, Laura, Journalism.co.uk (October 13, 2009). [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/10/13/nationwide-network-of-journalists-launch-zester-daily/ Food journalists launch Zester Daily to combat loss of Gourmet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712231302/http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/10/13/nationwide-network-of-journalists-launch-zester-daily/ |date=2011-07-12 }} The site, founded in August 2009, was launched with the statement, "In the face of the bleak news of Gourmet magazine's demise and newspapers' financial struggles, a collection of award-winning journalists has banded together to create Zester Daily, a pioneering news site covering all aspects of what we eat and drink."PRNewswire.com (October 12, 2009). [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nationwide-network-of-journalists-launch-zester-daily-63994292.html Nationwide Network of Journalists Launch Zester Daily] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605120153/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nationwide-network-of-journalists-launch-zester-daily-63994292.html |date=2011-06-05 }} The magazine ceased in 2016.{{cite web |title=Corie Brown|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/corie-brown-0b970aa|work=Linkedin|access-date=26 May 2020}}

Content contributors include Clifford Wright, Martha Rose Shulman, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Elin McCoy, Terra Brockman, Robyn Eckhardt, Sandra Wu, Patrick Comiskey and Jordan Mackay.