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Sweet City Roundtable: Emma Orlow

Checking in with one of Caper media’s founding journalists.

Mahira Rivers
Mar 11, 2026
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I started working with Emma Orlow in 2022, while she was an editor at Eater New York. It was a dreamy arrangement: I pitched stories like profiling a new guard of pastry chefs, which revealed insights that I still see reverberating in the news today. She would offer assignments like the opening report for a new Vietnamese bakery and a feature on the sta…

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