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Food Blog Ethics in Columbia Journalism Review

February 5, 2010
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It’s been nine months since my writing partner, Leah Greenstein, and I created Food Ethics and our controversial Food Blog Code of Ethics. In those months, much has happened here in the world of online food writing and criticism. The…

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Club Med Food Blogger Camp Tips and Insights

January 15, 2010
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Thanks to a food writing scholarship and the generous support of friends, I am writing this post from Ixtapa, Mexico’s Club Med Food Blogger Camp. For one week, a small group of food bloggers gather together to enjoy the tropical…

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Goodbye to the ‘Naughts

December 31, 2009
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This first decade of the new century has been a doozy. In just ten years, life stories have been written and re-written by time, chance, good fortune, and circumstance. These first ten years have been marked wonderful little moments, joyful…

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Menu for Hope 6: Wire Sculpture from Food Woolf

December 14, 2009
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As we wade deeper into the holiday season, the more many of us think of ways to give back. Donating to a local charity, helping out a friend in need, and giving handmade gifts are wonderful ways to contribute to…

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Food Blogger Gift Guide

December 12, 2009
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Food Blogger Holiday Gift Ideas 2009

It seems like everyone I meet nowadays is a food blogger. We’re a unique bunch of people that obsess over food, eat like it was our job, snap pictures of everything we eat, and…

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The Hero’s Journey, Through Food Blogging Part II

December 1, 2009
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[This is Part Two of a Previous Post]

“If what you are following is your own true adventure…then magical guides will appear to help you.”–Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

In celebration of my two year anniversary, I’ve decided to take a look…

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The Hero’s Journey, Through Food Blogging (Part one)

December 1, 2009
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“The hero’s journey always begins with the call.” –Jospeh Campbell

Joseph Campbell, author of The Heroes Journey, called this significant shift, the “inciting incident” within a character’s story. This event in a real person’s life is called a turning point. Or…

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Moving from Blogger to Wordpress

October 15, 2009

Home feels so much better after a really good clean. That’s true for this blog, too. Maybe you noticed a few changes. What’s different? Thanks to lots and lots of help, I ripped out all the old Blogger wiring and installed…

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Thick as a brick chicken

August 21, 2009
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There are little stories we tell ourselves to make it past the little things we do that might not be so noble. The guilt associated with a late night ice cream run is easily assuaged by the internal voice of…

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Food Blog Ethics: a personal manifesto that went viral

May 5, 2009

To be honest, Leah and I had no idea what we would be getting ourselves into when we wrote our manifesto. We had no idea just how many people were going to read this thing.

Monday of last week I called…

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