Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of food writing.
In 2015, I was diagnosed with coronary artery disease and ended up getting two stents, […] Since then, I save most of my “cheat meals” for AL.com food-writing.
2023 November 25, Matt Wake, “Five meals under $10 that I love from local Huntsville restaurants (and you will, too!)”, in The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
Food-writing is such a diverse area that people are often unclear exactly what a food writer’s job is. Generally, it is assumed that you must be a restaurant critic, the most visible face of food-writing, and that you therefore enjoy endless free meals out at the best restaurants.
1996, Jenny Linford, “Writing about food”, in Writing about Food (Writing), London: A & C Black, →ISBN, page 7The recent development of a distinct subgenre of autobiography, the culinary memoir, is another indication that women’s food-writing is increasingly perceived and cast within more formal, literary conventions.
2003, Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran, “Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing”, in Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran, editors, Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7
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