On Spice

Caitlin PenzeyMoog is the grandchild of Bill and Ruth-Ann Penzey, who founded the Spice House in 1957, where Caitlin worked for most of her childhood. The Spice House now has four locations in Milwaukee and Chicago, and Caitlin's family also founded Penzeys Spices, which operates seventy retail stores in twenty-nine states in addition to online mail orders. Caitlin studied journalism and media studies at the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin. She is deputy managing editor of The A.V. Club, a subsidiary of Onion, Inc. and the Gizmodo Media Group. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.