Food pairs well with writing. Writerly minds are attracted to the food and agriculture scene, and the food and ag scene comes across well on the printed page.
It may be because food, agriculture and writing occupations all rely on compulsive-obsessive passion as the substitute for a financial motive for staying in the—pardon the pun—field. It may be because all the people who work in food, agriculture and writing live in hope of doing better next year. Possibly, there is an allure of romance in the job of preparing food and text. Or perhaps there is a common appreciation of culture, because agriculture is certainly as much an expression of human culture as writing.
Today’s food movement has certainly been well served by excellent writers. Indeed, the food movement has done much better in the hands of writers than...
Wayne Roberts wrote about food policy for Toronto’s NOW Magazine and was the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food.
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