Comments on: Who Qualifies as a Beard Finalist, and What They Wrote

By: So You Want to be a Successful Food Blogger? Here’s How.

So You Want to be a Successful Food Blogger? Here’s How. — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:19:21 +0000

[...] men seem to be disproportionately represented in the ranks of speakers and award winners? I’m not the only one who notices. I can only surmise that they simply stand out in an overwhelmingly female field. In true rock star [...]

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Fri, 20 May 2011 15:01:32 +0000

[...] many men seem to be disproportionately represented in the ranks of speakers and award winners? I'm not the only one who notices. I can only surmise that they simply stand out in an overwhelmingly female field. In true rock star [...]

By: diannejacob

diannejacob — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:14:17 +0000

Yep, it will keep you busy for a while.

Interesting that it was more fun than the book and chef awards, but then it probably depended on who was on the podium. How could you go wrong with Calvin Trillin?

What does “volunteer shot” mean?

By: diannejacob

diannejacob — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:12:42 +0000

Hah! I hope you can get some good stuff in Paris.

By: parisbreakfast

parisbreakfast — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:43:18 +0000

I had to run out and get some pizza half-way through Alan’s article! I couldn’t stand it any longer!!

By: parisbreakfast

parisbreakfast — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:21:49 +0000

ho hum…i was in Paris and missed all these goodies!
For about 5-7 years I volunteer shot the Beard Journalism Awards and it was always the best of the events-the most fun, the wittiest.
I don’t remember it being so heavy on the white men winners in the 90′s but life was different then.
True Alan Richman always won and Calvin Trillin almost always MC’d and they were both always terrific.
c’est la vie
so much to read here!

By: diannejacob

diannejacob — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:07:40 +0000

I guess it depends where Lam is freelancing. Right now you can catch him editing Salon.com's food section, which currently features him (ahem) doing a man-on-the-street video about Peeps just in time for Easter. But then, there's this piece on New Orleans.

By: Malena

Malena — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:23:52 +0000

The Chinese Barbeque piece is hauntingly gorgeous. Where can we find writing like this now that Gourmet is gone?

By: diannejacob

diannejacob — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:59:31 +0000

That is definitely disappointing. Richman complains about it also in the next post.

By: Babette

Babette — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:10:58 +0000

To Paula above, I do think that being part of the story is part of show don’t tell in these cases. The best way to show –well, for me as a food writer, anyway–is to be eating the food, walking in field with a farmer, etc.

As to the stories..shorter and shorter. I recently wrote a story that came in at 2,000–I kind of begged to have the whole thing printed, but they just couldn’t. I was not begging for more money (it was already a labor of love…) It was disappointing…