Calvin Trillin has written about food for the New Yorker for decades. It may seem implausible but he doesn't describe food in anything he writes. There is a consensus among magazine editors, Beard Award-winning authors and famed bloggers that a successful food writer is nothing more than a successful writer. Ruth Reichl says the term "food writer" is pejorative, like "woman writer." She is a writer, period. Dianne Jacob, who teaches food writing, has just published her third edition of Will Write for Food” and gives us tips on how to write about food.
Music: "Summertime" by Juan Amalbert's Latin Jazz Quartet