Kristy Alpert is a freelance journalist with extensive experience coveringtravel, food and lifestyle topics. She has won six national awards for herwriting, and has written for a variety of publications and clients, most notablyAmerican Way magazine, The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, AT&T, HP and Nestle.Her passion for journalistic storytelling has led her from Bruges to Beijing,with a tequila worm tasting in Mexico thrown in every so often. Kristy Alperthas a passion for experiencing the peculiar and loves the thrill that comes fromovercoming her fears.