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Food Profiles and Food Porn: Why We Just Can’t Get Enough
Start Date: 5/23/2013Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Date: 5/23/2013End Time: 5:00 PM

Event Description

“And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Food writing has become a wildly popular genre that’s not just about restaurant listings and recipe writing. These days, the seemingly straightforward question of “What shall we have for dinner?” has become incredibly complicated. Eating is a political act, a cultural act, an ethical act. Perhaps most importantly, eating is a very personal act. Some argue the merits of writing about food as a literary genre. Others ask: “Can food be art?” In any case, the explosion of online food writing is cultural phenomenon worthy of discussion, and that is what this panel intends to do.

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Lobby of Drexel University Recreation Center

Moderator: Jason Wilson, is the author of “Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits.” Wilson edits TableMatters.com and writes a weekly wine column for Philly.com. At Drexel, he teaches writing and is the director of the Center for Cultural Outreach. His new book, “Planet of the Grapes,” will be out in fall 2013.
Panelists:

Art Etchells founded Foobooz.com in 2006. The site started as a hobby and progressed to an obsession and, finally, to a job. A Philadelphia native, Etchells has a background in IT and considers himself a tweener, part technical, part editorial and a Photoshop dabbler. In December, 2010 he sold Foobooz to Philadelphia Magazine and stayed on as digital product manager. The only food he won’t eat comes from McDonalds.

Michael Klein, editor/producer for Philly.com/food, has covered the dining scene in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Zagat Survey for 20 years.

Marisa McClellan is a food writer, canning teacher, and dedicated farmers’ market shopper who lives in Center City Philadelphia. Her first cookbook, Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round, is now available. Find more of her jams, pickles and preserves (all cooked up in her 80-square-foot kitchen) at her blog, Food in Jars (www.foodinjars.com).

Contact Information:
Name: Mary Sydnor
Phone: 215-895-6201
Email: mes377@drexel.edu
Location:
The lobby of the Drexel Recreation Center.
Audience:
  • Alumni
  • Current Students
  • Faculty
  • Public
  • Staff

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