Sometimes, no news is good news. And then there are the times when good news is, in fact, great news. This week’s tweets announcing new food channels on CNN.com…
…AND at the Huffington Post:
were, in my book, decidedly of the later kind of “great” news.
As the Village Voice‘s food blog, A Fork in the Road, notes, Huffington Post Food and Eatocracy are just the two latest foodie news feeds to have launched: “Last spring, The Atlantic launched its Food Channel, Salon got its Food section last fall, and NBC New York debuted Feast earlier this year.”
To which I add, the New York Daily News recently launched a supplemental Sunday food section, and the Wall Street Journal hired a restaurant reporter to cover the beat for its soon-to-debut New York section (via The New York Observer).
Not everybody’s happy about it (e.g. this retweet today from the Houston Chronicle‘s food critic, Alison Cook):
But here’s the thing.
Not only do more food news sources mean more food news production — (which equals more potential freelance opportunities for this writer and many others, joy!) — but this burst of growth is just the latest evidence that something really is afoot. Food isn’t just what’s for dinner anymore.
As HuffPost blogger (and celebrated foodist in his own right) Craig “Meathead Goldwyn so undeniably illustrates in his slideshow essay introducing the new section, “Food for Thought and Thought for Food,”
Food may be the preeminent topic of our times. An exaggeration? Food weaves through, nay, encompasses all the major topics…
…from politics to religion, from health to business to entertainment, food touches every sector of our lives.
And people are figuring it out.
