Erin Siegal
Reporter, Fronteras DeskErin Siegal is part of the Fronteras Desk reporting team, based in San Diego at KPBS. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Erin is the author of the award-winning book Finding Fernanda, (Beacon Press 2012), which examines organized crime and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the U.S. Previously, she wrote a column on public records and government accountability for the Columbia Journalism Review, "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various media outlets, including Univision, the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, O Magazine, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico. When she's not eating tacos or working, Erin can be found along the border at Rancho Los Amigos, riding horses and smoking cigars with her favorite vaqueros.
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James Beard Award-nominated chefs Mike Brown and Bob Gerken are known for flipping food on its head at their restaurant, Travail Kitchen and Amusements. After showing off their fancy, fine dining creations, the chefs go back to their roots and head into the kitchen with their moms to cook childhood favorites the old-fashioned way.
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Two Cakes with a HOLE lot of surprises. The stories behind the decedent and buttery French King Cake with James Beard Award-nominated pastry chef Marc Heu and the rich Tunnel of Fudge American Bundt Cake with Jennifer Dalquist, granddaughter of the inventors of the Bundt pan.
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Two restaurants bring the spirit of Aloha to the Midwest through iconic and memory-filled meals from Hawaii. Warren Seta from Ono Hawaii Plates cooks up his grandmother's traditional beef stew, historically served as a "plate lunch." Chef Chris Ikeda (Pau Hana) puts a modern spin on the classic Loco Moco while diving into the ins and outs of Hawaii Regional Cuisine.
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More than 90 Muslim scholars, community leaders and institutions are calling on Muslim nations to leverage their influence to end what they described as escalating genocide in Gaza by Israeli forces. -
Firefighters have stopped forward progress on an 88-acre brush fire burning near Roadrunner Lane and Moonlit Trail Boulevard by Interstate 8.
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The Trump administration has replaced former Missouri Congressman Billy Long as IRS Commissioner, after less than two months on the job. It's the latest in a string of management shakeups at the tax collection agency.
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