Sacramento Bee names a food and culture fanatic to help readers ‘live their best lives’
An award-winning food and culture journalist has joined The Sacramento Bee to expand coverage of the capital region’s food and restaurant scene.
Anne Ewbank became The Bee’s Service Journalism and Food Reporter on June 1, tackling stories about restaurant openings and closings and hyperlocal dining options, food guides and industry trends. She has already covered how a local pie icon is campaigning to win “best pie in America,” and the annual Tower Bridge Dinner, which highlights Sacramento’s farm-to-fork culture.
Ewbank also reports on breaking news, fact checks and other stories that help readers in Sacramento, the Central Valley and along the Central Coast navigate daily life, along with providing the latest entertainment, weather and retail coverage. This includes The Bee’s “On A Budget” series, exploring dining and other experiences people can do for under $25.
A California native, she has previously reported on food and culture for Atlas Obscura, Popular Science and more. At Atlas Obscura, Ewbank helped launch its food and dining section Gastro Obscura and received a 2025 James Beard Media Award for ‘Gastro Obscura’s Feast,’ a dining and travel food guide on nine international destinations. She also helped curate its “Favorite Things” newsletter, garnering more than 340,000 email subscribers in less than three years.
Working alongside food and drink reporter Sean Timberlake and farm-to-fork reporter Lizzie Kane, Ewbank will maintain a repertoire on what Sacramentans and Northern Californians eat and the economic factors that affect what lands on people’s plates.
Ewbank holds a master’s degree in arts from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College. She reports to service journalism editor Allison Gibson.
“I’m really excited to join the Sacramento Bee as a service journalist,” Ewbank said, “and I’m looking forward to helping readers live their best lives here in Sacramento.”
Ewbank replaces Camila Pedrosa, who is now The Bee’s California Diversions Reporter, a newly created role that showcases where to go and what to do in the Sacramento region and beyond.
