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…
Wayne Roberts
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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What Happened to Good Food?
No nutrition, no farms, no family dinners, says a founding editor of Harrowsmith September 2006
Thanks to Chicken Little, the Boy Who Cried Wolf and an unending list of recent imitators, it is a tough sell for authors who want to grab attention for the trend they are writing about by forewarning that the end is nigh—for work, science, religion, nature, the atmosphere, capitalism, liberalism, socialism or whatever.
With years of down-home farm experiences in…