Civil Eats is an independent, nonprofit digital news and commentary site about the American food system.
[2] Founded in 2009 by Naomi Starkman and Paul Crossfield,[3] who left the organization in 2014.
The editorial team includes Matthew Wheeland, Margo True, Christina Cooke, Tilde Herrera, and Lisa Held.
It raised an unprecedented $100,000 via Kickstarter in 2013,[6] was named Publication of the Year in 2014 by the James Beard Foundation,[7] inducted into the Library of Congress in 2019,[8] and won the IACP Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020.
[9] Editor-in-chief Naomi Starkman was a 2016 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.