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Lauren Ng is a summer intern at the Food section of the Los Angeles Times. A Torrance native, she has previously written and edited for Food Fix, an American food policy newsletter, and is pursuing bachelor’s degrees in journalism and food studies at New York University, where she is the managing editor of the award-winning student newspaper. At The Times, Ng aims to explore the intersection between food, culture and politics. When she isn’t reading or writing about food, she can be found browsing restaurant menus or looking for a new vegetable to obsess over.

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