Melissa Corbin is a Tennessee-based travel and culinary journalist with an appetite for the stories of people and places that make the world unique. When she's not wheels up to somewhere new, you can find her most often in her garden or kitchen, as food is her preferred love language. At Reader's Digest, she covers a variety of topics ranging from the origins of food to those special how-tos you never knew you wanted to know.
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