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. She has appeared on the mastheads of Popular Mechanics, National Geographic Adventure, CITY, Us Weekly and more.

Alyson Sheppard

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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You’ve just built the perfect snowman: top hat, carrot nose, corncob pipe, the works. You whip your iPhone out to snap a photo for your Instagram feed, but the screen won't come on. It was fully charged when you left the house, so what happened? Did the c

Alyson Sheppard