Culinary Name Dropping
Phew. I've had a whirlwind month. It started out in a slow-paced fashion on the beach in Capri, but by the fourth week I found myself amidst a cyclone of activity (making cupcakes with toddlers to be specific). In between I managed to scarf down some cacio e pepe in Rome, pop into Eataly in New York, graze at Fette Sau's picnic tables in Williamsburg, and inhale a Pat LaFrieda burger at La Guardia airport all before I landed in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia for the Symposium for Professional Food Writers at the Greenbrier.
Now, it was my first time there, and I can't say that I wasn't just a smidge intimidated by the luminaries in the room. Truth be told both the panelists and the attendees were quite an accomplished bunch from all corners of the food world: Dorothy Kalins and Christopher Hirsheimer (the founders of Saveur magazine), Huffington Post columnist Elissa Altman, Laurie Buckle, Editor-in-Chief of Fine Cooking, cookbook writer and photographer James Peterson, Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan, and author Molly Wizenberg, just to name a handful. I'm not sure how I managed to sneak in!
In one of the closing discussions the panel weighed in on what they've been reading lately. I thought it would be a fun list to share with y'all.
What Food Writers are Reading:
Molly Wizenberg: The New Yorker, Out Stealing Horses
Joe Yonan: Morning Miracle
Laurie Buckle: American Terroir
Rick Rodgers: Medium Raw
James Peterson: Auberge of the Flowering Hearth, Proust
Kirsty Melville: Ender's Game
Rux Martin: Molly Wizenberg
Elissa Altman: Crossing to Safety, A Book of Mediterranean Food, Around My French Table
David Joachim: Stieg Larsson
What are you food-obsessed people reading as of late? I myself just finshed Medium Raw, A Homemade Life, and am wrapping up A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome.
--StellaCadente*
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Paul A'Barge on September 24, 2010 at 06:34 AM
Huffington Post?
Good grief.
Hercule on September 24, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Stella, are you Betty Draper in real life? A thing like that ....