Zester Daily is a food and wine online magazine, published by a team led by Corie Brown, a former writer and editor for the Los Angeles Times.[1][2][3][4] The site, founded in August 2009, was launched with the statement, "In the face of the bleak news of Gourmet magazine's demise and newspapers' financial struggles, a collection of award-winning journalists has banded together to create Zester Daily, a pioneering news site covering all aspects of what we eat and drink."[5]
Content contributors include Clifford Wright, Martha Rose Shulman, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Elin McCoy, Terra Brockman, Robyn Eckhardt, Sandra Wu, Patrick Comiskey and Jordan Mackay.[5]