Food-writing

Food-writing is such a diverse area that people are often unclear exactly what a food writer’s job is. Generally, it is assumed that you must be a restaurant critic, the most visible face of food-writing, and that you therefore enjoy endless free meals out at the best restaurants.

The recent development of a distinct subgenre of autobiography, the culinary memoir, is another indication that women’s food-writing is increasingly perceived and cast within more formal, literary conventions.

In 2015, I was diagnosed with coronary artery disease and ended up getting two stents, […] Since then, I save most of my “cheat meals” for AL.com food-writing.