Tovin Lapan

Location: San Francisco, California

Education: University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan

Tovin introduced Serious Eats readers to Guadalajara’s signature sandwich torta ahogada.
His reporting on the Las Vegas food scene has included features spotlighting chef Jose Andreas, family-run tortilla business Los Arcos, and the city’s best South and Central American cuisine.
His food writing appears in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, Fortune, Lucky Peach, and Travel Weekly. Tovin is the Hawaii contributing editor at Travel Weekly.

Experience

Based out of San Francisco and Las Vegas, Tovin is an intrepid freelance journalist armed with an appetite for good stories and a secret stash of chocolate. He often writes about food, travel, music, and Latin America, as well as science, politics, and immigration. Tovin’s reporting on the Las Vegas food scene has included features spotlighting chef Jose Andreas, family-run tortilla business Los Arcos, and the city’s best South and Central American cuisine. He introduced Serious Eats readers to Guadalajara’s signature sandwich torta ahogada.

Tovin’s food writing appears in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, Fortune, Lucky Peach, and Travel Weekly, where he is the Hawaii contributing editor. A self-described “Swiss Army knife” of reporting, his work is also featured in The Atlantic, San Francisco Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, US News & World Report, and The Guardian US, among others.

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