What did you eat for dinner last night?
No, not you ... The experts! Last week, food writers from across the country got together at the University of Arizona for a conference on literary food writing. The daylong meeting was part of an effort to get Tucson listed as a worldwide city of gastronomy with the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. (We'll find out as early as Dec. 11 if we get it.)
Edible Baja Magazine worked with the UA Southwest Center and the city of Tucson to bring in authors from current UNESCO cities like Iowa City (City of Literature) and Santa Fe (City of Folk Arts.) Among the authors were a pioneer in journalistic food writing Betty Fussell and "Vegetable Literacy" author Deborah Madison.
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Whenever you get a bunch of professional foodies in a room together, the same discussion topics start to pop up. Like: "How do we bring the local foods movement to working people with less time and money to spend?" and, "How can we be responsible consumers, when the world is so messed up?"
For this video, I thought I'd ask something a little simpler. What do you like to put in your mouth? These answers might not cure world hunger or help to reverse the onset of global warming. But hey, it's a start right? We all gotta eat, so let's talk about it ...
