food writing
See also: food-writing and foodwriting
English
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Noun
- Writing that focuses on food.
- 1993, Jo Brans, “Strange Fruit”, in Feast Here Awhile: Adventures in American Eating, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, page 149:
- 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.
- 1994 February 6, Karen Stabiner, “Food as Social History: JAMES BEARD, By Robert Clark (HarperCollins: $27.50, 357 pp.)”, in Los Angeles Times[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2025:
- He understands that the best food writing is not so much about how the grub is, but about who’s eating it and why.
- 2021 October 11, Rachel Syme, “Laurie Colwin’s Recipe for Being Yourself in the Kitchen”, in The New Yorker[2], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2021:
- The bossy yet intimate style of her best food writing taught decades of home cooks to trust the strength of their convictions.
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Further reading
- food writing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia