Food Writing Grows Up
Let's Turn Emotional Eating On Its Head
Sometimes we lose all of this magic in the margins. Even though food is everywhere in our social fabric and in our culture, it’s still squeezed into one thing or another. Diet gurus make food the sum of calories and carbs. Self-avowed foodies use food as a code for class. Restaurant critics polish food into a smooth, substance-less thing, while foo
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A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food
amazon.comFood writing is just another way of looking at the world,
Silvia Killingsworth • The Best American Food Writing 2019
I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice—and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
Food has become remarkably inefficient, and the pill-promoting futurists of the 1960s would be astonished to see how wrong they were. People spend hours preparing it, eating it and watching television programmes about it. People cherish local ingredients, and willingly pay a premium for foods produced without chemical fertilisers. By contrast, when
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We don’t really think of food as political. It feels wrong to talk about something so enmeshed with home, comfort and nostalgia as belonging in the realm of politics. We’re used to relegating food to the domestic sphere: the kitchen and the place of women, a warm, familiar space far from the steeliness of legislation, government and war. So much of
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