Jess Iacullo is a TABLE Magazine contributor and the writer and photographer behind the magazine's monthly Hungry Jess restaurant column, covering Pittsburgh's dining scene from new menu highlights to her ongoing hunt for the city's best pizza. A New Jersey native, Jess has called Pittsburgh home for over a decade, having come to the city as a student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she launched her food and lifestyle coverage on Instagram in 2015. Find her at @hungryjessbigcity. 
That account has since grown into Hungry Jess Big City, a full-time social media management and marketing business through which Jess produces content and consults for local and national clients. Her path to food media began with a food-video internship at Business Insider, where the reach of her own Instagram handle linked to that work helped grow her following. She has since built expertise across restaurant and lifestyle content, influencer marketing, and small-business social strategy, skills she brings both to her client work and to TABLE's Pittsburgh food and lifestyle coverage. 
At TABLE, Jess writes and photographs monthly restaurant roundups and "Things to Do" features for TABLE’s online magazine, as well as How to Pittsburgh features for print. Both online and print activities pair her on-the-ground restaurant knowledge with a storyteller's eye developed across a decade of food content. Read more of Jess's work at pittsburgh.tablemagazine.com and follow her at Hungry Jess Big City.
Why I Write 
I write about Pittsburgh's restaurants because this is a city that takes its food seriously, and after ten years here, I've earned my opinions one plate at a time. I started sharing what I ate as a college student procrastinating on papers, and it turned into a career built on the same instinct: find the spot worth the trip, tell people honestly whether it's worth their time, and never lose the enthusiasm that made me want to write about food in the first place, all while telling the stories of the people behind the plates. At TABLE, that means monthly dispatches from Pittsburgh's dining scene that read less like a press release and more like a tip from a friend who already ate there.