Mountain Xpress Food Writer Mackensy Lunsford has won 1st-place in the 2012 Altweekly Awards for publications with a circulation under 50,000. Lunsford’s winning trio of articles:
Mountain Xpress: “Mud Fish and Menudo”; “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”; and “Everything’s Better with Butter” by Mackensy Lunsford
Lunsford beat out another North Carolina writer at the Independent Weekly “(The man who designed the Oreo cookie” and “A brief history of pimento cheese” by Emily Wallace). The other finalist: Seven Days‘s Corin Hirsch (“Suddenly Sushi,” “The Spirits That Move Them,” and “Resurrecting Hops.”
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Congratulations, Mackensy. Onward and upward!
Well done! I’ve always enjoyed your articles – glad to see others do, too!!
Congrats on the award, it’s good to see hard work recognized!