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

1. Should it?
Does YOUR food writing matter?
Should it?

2. 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

3. 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

4. WHY FOOD WRITING
MATTERs
By
BEE WILSON
POTS AND PANS
TELL US WHO
WE ARE!

5. So it happens that when I write
of Hunger, I am really writing
about love
M.F.K. Fisher

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

7. 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?