Featured Travel Writer: Gwen Pratesi

Gwen Pratesi is a James Beard Foundation Award Finalist in Journalism and an award-winning travel writer. She is the author and owner of PratesiLiving.com with her husband and is the coauthor of Southern Heat: New Southern Cooking Latin Style. You can find her work in The Travel section of U.S. News & World Report as a regular contributor. She also freelances for other publications, including USA TODAY, Cruise Critic, Reader's Digest, Forbes Travel Guide, Smarter Travel, TripAdvisor, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, and World Travel Magazine. Her work has also been featured on MSN, Yahoo!, Business Insider, and SheKnows.

Gwen chronicles her love of international travel and experience as a professional home cook on PratesiLiving.com, where she shares the stories of some of the world's most sought-after destinations, highly regarded chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, wine and spirits producers, and culinary artisans. She and her husband recently traded in big city life in Atlanta for shorts and flip-flops on Fernandina Beach, Florida. They are now enjoying the coastal lifestyle with their Tibetan Terrier, Rhythm.

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