Food Writing Workshop

Indrani Sen leads this workshop that will introduce students to the fundamentals of the beat.

Writing about food must be as simple as eating it, right? Wrong. Food writing requires more than a fine-tuned palate, a table at the hottest, hot-hot restaurant, or a good recipe for authentic Neapolitan pizza dough. Locavores, the Farm Bill, food safety scares, commodity prices, environmental justice, pop ups, CSAs, molecular gastronomy, buying clubs and the DIY movement – in this post Michael Pollan, post-twitter era, food writing is increasingly complex. The good news is it’s also a growing field. Gourmet mag is gone, but the app still lives on, and the fertile landscape of localized or specialized food websites, TV and video, podcasts, blogs, and food zines is still expanding. General interest publications have also increased their food coverage.