Does Food and Travel Writing Matter? Conversation Panel with Monica Bhide and Bee Wilson #FBC14

Should it?

Does YOUR food writing matter? Should it?

How to make YOUR WORK matter

•  What you are selling? No, it is not a product. Nike, Oprah, Benz – they are all selling something.

•  Why a picture needs a thousand words •  How “chunky sauce” can earn millions

The power of anecdote is so great that it has a momentum in and of itself.” Ira Glass contends, “no matter how boring the facts are,” with a well-told story, “you feel inherently as if you are on a train that has a destination.

Ira Glass founded This American Life—a show that draws 1.7 million people to each weekly podcast on more than 500 radio stations

WHY FOOD WRITING MATTERs By BEE WILSON

POTS AND PANS ���TELL US WHO WE ARE!

So it happens that when I write of Hunger, I am really writing about love

M.F.K. Fisher

FOOD IS POLITICAL EVEN WHEN IT ISN’T ‘FOOD POLITICS’ Do we choose FIRE or ICE?

FOOD WRITING IS…

A Window onto our Civilisation

A Way into other subjects such as Politics, History, Economics, Chemistry, Agriculture ….or Love

But food writing is also a shared pleasure, from your kitchen to Mine. And isn’t that enough?