Jennifer Justus

Jennifer Justus works as marketing and events manager at The Nashville Food Project, a nonprofit committed to growing, cooking and sharing food with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in Nashville.  

She is author of Nashville Eats (Abrams), The Food Lovers’ Guide to Nashville (Globe Pequot Press), and she co-founded the recipe storytelling project Dirty Pages. She worked as food culture and lifestyles reporter at The Tennessean for several years before embarking on a freelance career that led to work in TIME, The Bitter Southerner, Rolling Stone, Southern Living, Garden & Gun and more. 

Jennifer took an interest in the emotional connections we make through food while working in qualitative research. She spent hours in the kitchens of home cooks looking for the reasons behind the comfort in a pot of chili, and she conducted deprivation studies with teenagers across the country to understand their consumption of MTV as well as triggers for craving for a slice of pepperoni pie.