Hailing from the Missouri Ozarks, Addie Broyles expanded her cooking (and eating) skills on the West Coast and Spain before settling in Austin, where she works as the food writer for the Austin American-Statesman and Austin360.com.

Since she took on the food beat last year, Broyles has brought the newspaper's food coverage into the 21st century with her blog, Relish Austin (austin360.com/relishaustin), videos, food meet-ups and Twitter (@broylesa), where she befriends complete strangers who happen to like food 140 characters at a time.