food writing

alternative food-writing · alternative foodwriting

1. uncountableWriting that focuses on food.

   He understands that the best food writing is not so much about how the grub is, but about who’s eating it and why.

   1994 February 6, Karen Stabiner, “Food as Social History: JAMES BEARD, By Robert Clark (HarperCollins: $27.50, 357 pp.)”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2025

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   Willem and I ate some really terrible meals in the early days of our marriage. Let me tell you, food writing is not the idylls of the king, even Old King Cole.

   1993, Jo Brans, “Strange Fruit”, in Feast Here Awhile: Adventures in American Eating, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, page 149

   The bossy yet intimate style of her best food writing taught decades of home cooks to trust the strength of their convictions.

   2021 October 11, Rachel Syme, “Laurie Colwin’s Recipe for Being Yourself in the Kitchen”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2021