Photoillustration by Lille Allen; photo by Rebecca Simonov Lyndsay Green won a James Beard Award and was named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, just three years into being a food writer In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Lyndsay Green. In Lyndsay C. Green’s first year as the Detroit Free Press restaurant and dining critic, she won the James Beard emerging voice award and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Though relatively new in her field, she is already being recognized for offering candid, sometimes vulnerable accounts of her experiences eating and drinking in Detroit. At the close of 2022, the Mount Vernon, New York, native encapsulated her first year on the job with a piece, “ Accidentally Anonymous ,” describing in vivid detail the times she — a Black woman food writer covering a majority Black city — often felt invisible during her ma...