Food Writing, Food Media, Food, Whatever Has a Role Beyond Utility?

Keith Lee: Food writing, food media has a role beyond utility. There was a huge aspect of romanticism to me when I was in my teens and twenties reading about food. When I read Bourdain for the first time, it wasn't because I just wanted to know the food ways of places he was going. And so much of what I read now doesn't make me feel romantic about food. It makes me feel like just it's so much as a lecture at me now. Which is never how real criticism was written.

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