“Think of it as arranging meat and veggies on a shish kabob skewer,” explains Tim Harrower, a journalist at The (Portland) Oregonian. “Start with a juicy red tomato — an anecdote. Follow with a nut graph. Then add meat — chunk after chunk after chunk — until you reach the end, where you reprise with another tomato — a final quote or anecdote.”

— Anecdote/Quote — Nut Graph — Meat (main text/body) — Anecdote/Quote —

Not to be confused with kebab-case