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Alyson Sheppard is a food, beverage and travel writer whose work regularly appears in the pages of Robb Report, Esquire, Playboy and more. She is also an editor and staff writer for Mobile, Alabama’s alt-weekly newspaper, Lagniappe, and a contributing writer to Wildsam’s Field Guide to the Gulf Coast.
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