does food and travel writing matter? conversation panel with monica bhide and bee wilson #fbc14

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

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Page 1: Does Food and Travel Writing Matter? Conversation Panel with Monica Bhide and Bee Wilson #FBC14

Should it?

Does YOUR food writing matter? Should it?

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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

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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

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WHY FOOD WRITING MATTERs By BEE WILSON

POTS AND PANS ���TELL US WHO WE ARE!

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

M.F.K. Fisher

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

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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?

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