Stories by Carolyn Wyman

Carolyn Wyman is a Brown University-educated junk food journalist, historian and author. She has written six food books ("Better Than Homemade: Amazing Foods That Changed the Way We Eat," "Spam: A Biography," "Jell-O: A Biography," and "The Great Philly Cheesesteak Book," among them) and reviews new grocery products in the nationally syndicated Supermarket Sampler newspaper column . Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe. She has discussed the Keebler Elves on NPR's "Morning Edition," fed her famous "clothes dryer shrimp" dish to comedienne Rosie O'Donnell and once appeared in the National Examiner tabloid sitting in a shopping cart full of groceries. She writes, heats, eats and leads food history tours in Philadelphia, the birthplace of our country and Mrs. Paul's Fish Sticks.