
Scott Hocker, The Week US
Scott Hocker is a freelance writer and editor at The Week Digital. He has worked front- and back-of-the-house in fine-dining restaurants and written food, travel, culture and lifestyle stories for local, national and international publications for more than 20 years. Scott also has more than 15 years of experience creating, implementing and managing content initiatives while working across departments to grow companies. His most recent editorial post was as editor-in-chief of Liquor.com, which was acquired by Dotdash Meredith in 2019. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Tasting Table, where he helped grow the food media company into a powerhouse lifestyle brand during the 2010s. Prior to that, Scott was a senior editor at San Francisco magazine, during which the magazine won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
He has won James Beard and International Association of Culinary Professionals awards and in 2012 was selected for Out magazine’s annual OUT 100 list of artists, creatives and other power players in the LGBTQ+ community.
Scott lives (mostly) in Bogotá, Colombia, and tries to ensure every day includes a ridiculously long walk and a ridiculously short nap.
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The holidays need an array of dishes. These 7 recipes to the delicious rescue.The Week Recommends New Year's Eve, post-gathering brunch and a healthy vegetable contrast are all present.
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Meet Youngmi Mayer, the renegade comedian whose frank new memoir is a blitzkrieg to the genreThe Week Recommends 'I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying' details a biracial life on the margins, with humor as salving grace
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One great cookbook: 'The Zuni Café Cookbook' by Judy RodgersThe Week Recommends A tome that teaches you to both recreate recipes and think like a cook
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Stay sharp with the country's best knife shopsThe Week Recommends A dull knife is a kitchen's worst nightmare
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5 online spice shops that will breathe life into your cooking and bakingThe Week Recommends Accessing fresh spices does not have to be a grind
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9 movies where food is the main courseThe Week Recommends With films from Japan, France, Hong Kong, the US and Britain
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One great cookbook: 'Every Grain of Rice' by Fuchsia DunlopThe Week Recommends The alchemy of Chinese home cooking made accessible
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7 cocktails for a comforting autumnThe Week Recommends Vodka, rum, brandy, mezcal: The gang's all here
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7 recipes for every kind of fall cooking occasionThe Week Recommends Marinated feta; go-to chocolate cake; a fresh way with Brussels: Autumn is not going to know what hit it
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One great cookbook: 'Truly Mexican'The Week Recommends A cookbook that will teach you the bones of one of the world's great cuisines
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How Black female science fiction and fantasy writers are upending the narrativeThe Week Recommends There may be only a few making waves. But their effect has been seismic.
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One great cookbook: Anita Lo's 'Solo'The Week Recommends Because cooking for yourself is the best kind of largess
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One great cookbook: Molly Stevens' 'All About Dinner'The Week Recommends This book is a problem solver, whether you need inspiration, careful instruction of complex ideas or crave success with the ABCs of cooking dinner
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8 new cookbooks ready to make your summer humThe Week Recommends The most special of Vietnamese food, Italian American baking for all and a primer on turning beloved cocktails into freezer versions of themselves
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9 recipes to cook (or not cook) during the hot summer monthsThe Week Recommends Freshness and ease are where it's at from July through September
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8 cocktail recipes for your every summer needThe Week Recommends Beat the heat back with well-chosen refreshment
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8 touring productions to see this summer before they end their runsThe Week Recommends Is four movie adaptations sufficient for one season?
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Cristina Rivera Garza continues crossing borders into award-winning territoriesIn the Spotlight The prolific Mexican author just won the 2024 Pulitzer for Memoir or Autobiography
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One great cookbook: Madhur Jaffrey's 'Vegetarian India'The Week Recommends The 2015 tome will reshape how you think about both vegetables and Indian food
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8 genre-defining Black country, folk and blues musiciansThe Week Recommends Keeping the legacy alive, even when the industry tries to keep them down
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The best movie musicals of all timeThe Week Recommends The singing and dancing, bigger than life itself
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6 queer poets to read whenever but especially nowThe Week Recommends April is National Poetry Month
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Kerala: one Indian state, four exhilarating waysThe Week Recommends The southwestern region pretty much has it all, from beachfront, to port metropolis, to verdant mountainside
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The remarkable comedy of Julio TorresThe Explainer His latest endeavor, "Problemista," continues his peerless artistic run
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