Monday I delivered a chunky, heavy piece which was the last part of the Food Memories series. After that piece, I had to take a couple of days to re-coup and work on the last details of my book proposal which is near completion. I want to keep things a bit light + fluffy today.
Some newsletter topics that may or not be in your inbox in the future:
- Food scarcity + the impact it has on adulthood
- The implications of colonized culinary traditions (French cooking being the pinnacle of culinary education + where that leaves indigenous cooking techniques behind)
- Book proposal writing process
- The endless lists and how we have succumbed to them. Forbes 30 under 30...and how ageism is very much alive + well
- Food justice movement during the Covid-19 era
Great December Holiday Gifts For Kiddos
What I just finished reading:
In the Devil’s Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods by Stewart Lee Allen
Great read! Will definitely be dropping some great anecdotes I discovered in this book in future newsletters.
About to start reading:
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
If you’re interested in food justice on the ground level watch this great interview of LaDonna Redmond with Danielle Nierenberg of Food Tank. Not gonna lie...I got extremely frustrated a couple of times with this interview. For one Danielle plugs her friend’s Broadway show at the beginning for a solid like 5 minutes while this woman is visibly on the screen just waiting to be interviewed...sooo awkward! Also, was hard to watch a White woman ask a Black woman what trauma is and say that now Covid-19 has leveled the playing field for both White + Black people for food insecurity!!! My head almost exploded.
Next week I’ll resume my usual ramblings in essay form! Also, if you like what I’m doing here please subscribe (if you haven’t already + share!).