Growers and Grocers
You may have seen the new food blog network that Kate and others have founded. It's called Well Fed, and it's set up much like Weblogs, Inc. in that it encompasses several topic-specific blogs. You may have also noticed that I'm the editor of the Growers and Grocers portion, which covers everything from soil to shelf.
I became interested in the craft of editing when I started writing for The Art of Eating. I am not even a Padawan next to Ed Behr's Jedi Master editing, but I've come to enjoy the fiddly work of restructuring text (my writers may not be so keen on this tendency, however). I try to learn from all my editors, and I hope I can do justice to their teaching in my tenure at Growers and Grocers. This gives me a chance to see if I really enjoy this work or if I just think I do.
Of course, editing is more than just moving words around. I'll also be setting the site's philosophy, which is that consumers should understand their food and where it comes from. I'm also hoping to give "new voices" a wider audience as well as some clips they can use if they want to pitch magazines and newspapers. I think most publications do a poor job of enabling promising writers.
Stop by Growers and Grocers and let me know what you think. What would you like to see?
- My Final Gng Recap, 07/13/06
Monday will be my last day as the editor of Growers & Grocers. I wish I could cite some press-generating motive, but in truth, my other projects don't leave me the time to give GnG the attention it deserves. I will continue to write for the site...
- Gng Recap, 07/07/06
Here are some of the topics we've covered this week on Growers & Grocers I'm a big fan of the Ethicurean blog, after learning about it when I met one of the contributors Add Maryland to the list of states requesting disaster relief...
- Gng Recap, 06/02
What's the what on Growers and Grocers? Here's a guide to some of the stories we've covered this week: You can tell the USDA what you think about "organic" milk from cows crammed into feedlots. A Quebec university will allow the first...
- Take Action!
Since I started editing Growers & Grocers, I have become more political about my food, believe it or not. So here are two bills before the House of Representatives that you should know about. It's very easy to write your Representative, but a...
- Fennel On Sfist
Photo by Melissa Schneider. It was only a matter of time before I covered fennel on SFist. It's one of my favorite vegetables, after all. As some of you may have noticed, I'm now doing my In The Kitchen column every other week. Time gets...