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Food Awards for Journalism
- Pulitzer Prize winning writing from Jonathan Gold For distinguished criticism, in print or in print and online, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly.
- ASME Awards In Article(s) and Author(s), type “food” There are also images of the Best Magazine Covers in the Magazine Cover Contest
- The Peabody Awards: A Chef's Life A Chef’s Life disregards the usual recipes for television shows about restaurants and cooking. Neither over-seasoned nor overheated, it presents an honest, ongoing look at the ups and downs of a farm-to-fork restaurant in low country eastern North Carolina that is operated by chef Vivian Howard and her husband, Ben Knight. It’s not without drama –- a nasty kitchen fire early in the series’ run nearly sinks their young enterprise –- but A Chef’s Life is mainly
- The Peabody Awards: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Though Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is sometimes referred to as a “culinary travelogue,” the shorthand doesn’t do the series justice. Bourdain, who first made his name as a chef does seem obsessed with discovering new taste sensations. But wherever his appetite takes him, it’s the side-dish stories that make his visits so memorable and nourishing. Apart from his knowledge of food and cooking, he’s comfortable with himself
- The Peabody Awards: Alton Brown: Good Eats Alton Brown knows his foodstuffs, but so what? Dozens of tele-victual specialists know how to make a perfect barnaise or tell if a cantaloupe is ripe. What sets Brown and his Good Eats gang apart is how much they know and include in their half-hour programs about history, anthropology, math, chemistry, physics and popular culture. In an installment of Good Eats, a viewer is almost as likely to hear or see a reference to Batman or Werner Von Braun as baguettes or balsamic vinegars. Whether Brown
Additional Resources
- Food Journalism Ethics Food journalists serve their communities by stimulating more informed conversations about what we eat and why. Our primary responsibility is to share news, ideas and opinions as fairly, accurately, completely, independently and honestly as possible.
- Publishing in Food Studies Journals: An Index Food studies is an ever-expanding field with an increasing number of discipline specific and related peer-reviewed journals. As you seek out the right “home” for your food studies scholarship, consider this list of peer-reviewed publications, organized alphabetically.
- The Write Life: Writing for Food Magazines When you savor a meal, are you dreaming of the words you’d use to describe it? Do you salivate at the thought of writing about food for a living? If so, why not try your hand at writing for food magazines?
- Culinary Historians of Boston The Culinary Historians of Boston is the oldest circle of culinary historians in the US. Our members are academics, chefs, writers, food professionals, and hobby cooks, as well as students of cuisine, women's studies, history (ancient, medieval, and modern), agriculture, and politics.
- U.S. Copyright Office: Recipes Factsheet on U.S. copyright law with respect to recipes.
- Association for the Study of Food and Society The ASFS was founded in 1985, with the goals of promoting the interdisciplinary study of food and society.
- Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), was organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition.
