Hey, welcome to the Eater Uppsel, a part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Daniel Janine.

I'm an associate producer here.

I'm joined by our editor and chief and my co-host, Amanda Clute.

Hi Dan.

We have a little announcement to make.

We are kind of doing a little switch up on the format of the show.

We are still going to do some interviews,

but we are focusing the show more on content that we have on the

site and little newsy pieces and we are going to be more reactionary and a lot quicker.

Yeah, I mean, I think we at Eder have the biggest group of food experts out there.

We have 50 full timers around the country. We have over 20 part-timers. We have

corresponds around the world. I want us to be talking to the people we have on the

ground to find out what's going on in these really important food cities from the journalists who are writing about

actual stories. We've got a lot of people who are out there digging up and putting

together amazing content so why not just hop on their backs and yeah

squeeze them for all their worth yeah right right they were getting they were getting off easy

yeah just writing make everybody work a little bit harder for more content.

And we're going to start today by talking about something that is really near and dear to my heart, one of my pet causes, which is female representation

in food media and in the event space.

I gave a little presentation about this topic at the Cherry Bomb Jubilee last week,

Carrie Diamond, who runs that publication and that festival, that conference,

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