Description: Erik Trinidad is an award-winning travel + food lifestyle journalist and video creator whose credits include National Geographic, Fodor's, and Lonely Planet.
Erik Trinidad is an award-winning freelance travel + food lifestyle journalist and video creator. With roots in backpacking, his decades-long passion for traveling the seven continents —and creating travel content—has led him to produce video and written content for National Geographic Travel , Fodor’s Travel , and Lonely Planet . He’s also scribed stories for many other outlets, including Adventure.com , AFAR , Artful Living , BBC Travel , Condé Nast Traveler , Cooking Channel , Discovery.com , Subaru’s Dr
Independently, he’s combined the multitude of his talents to create, write, produce, shoot, host, edit, and motion design two travel web series. Working with gear brands, he created “ Car Glamping , ” a how-to on elevated car camping, featured in his piece for Newsweek . “ Plausibly Ridiculous ” is his award-winning, offbeat web show in which travel meets science, asking “questions about the world you didn’t even know you had.” Some episodes have been featured online by National Geographic, and on the Disco
From 2009–2012, Erik created the award-winning food humor blog, “ Fancy Fast Food ,” in which he meticulously transformed fast food items into haute cuisine-looking meals— without adding outside ingredients—inadvertently spearheading a trend that’s endured on social media since. Ultimately, this acclaimed, original blog was retired, but developed into the satirical cookbook that he authored, Fancy Fast Food: Ironic Recipes with No Bun Intended . As a result, his culinary intuition and irreverent food stylin