Laurel Miller is a food, spirits and travel writer and the associate editor of Edible Monterey Bay.
A former cooking teacher, she recently relocated from Austin back to her native California to be closer to the state’s regenerative farms and ranches and the best burritos on earth. She prefers whiskey to wine.

A Crucible of Ski Bums and Billionaires
In Telluride, O'Bannon's was a refuge for mountaineers, nomadic hairstylists and one very famous foot fetishist.
- story: Laurel Miller
- illustration: Carolyn Figel