Food Journalism in America
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
If you're recovering from a food coma or preparing for one, tune in this week to learn about the news about the food news. Our guest, Vic Matus, joins us to explore the history of food journalism in America, the impact of Anthony Bourdain, and the evolving influence of social media on the culinary scene. Wretch on and have a Happy Fourth!
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7:22 Front Page
14:33 Obsessions
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Show Notes:
Vic Matus: Vodka: How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit Conquered America:
New Yorker: “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by Anthony Bourdain
Medium: All You Can Hold for Five Bucks
A.J Leibling: Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Joseph Wechsberg: Dining at the Pavillon
New York Times: Ruth Reichel on Le Cirque (1993)
NYTimes: What Is the Best Way to Cut an Onion?
NYT: Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square
WaPo: D.C.-area restaurants and chefs nab 3 James Beard Awards
WaPo: To David Chang, the ‘ethnic’ food aisle is racist. Others say it’s convenient.
Grub Street: How Food Media Fails BIPOC
WaPo: Stop calling food ‘exotic’
Fodors: The 12 Best Fast Food Joints in America
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.8 | Hi, I am Chris Nyewald. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:28.3 | That's true. |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going |
| 0:32.8 | right with the American news media, Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:37.4 | I wonder if we could have an episode where we indulged our mutual obsession with food, food journalism, and dining. |
| 0:48.4 | Could it be done? |
| 0:49.4 | We have the perfect person. |
| 0:51.3 | Who would it be? |
| 0:52.0 | Who would you get? |
| 0:53.2 | What kind of journalist would you get for a |
| 0:55.4 | task like that, though? It seems impossible. I only had to look down the hall at Washington's |
| 1:01.6 | Three Beacon. So thank you so much to our friend Vic Mattis for joining us today, |
| 1:07.9 | who has a long and storied history with culinary journalism. And we thought it |
| 1:15.9 | would be great to have Vic sort of walk us through the history of foodie journalism in America |
| 1:22.8 | and talk a little bit about what it is like today. Welcome, Vic. |
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