This is the second post of a three-part series where we share what we’ve learned from watching cooking shows. In this post, chef Bobby Flay is highlighted. Incredibly talented, Bobby has an impressively diverse and successful…
Food, Media, & Culture
29 things we learned from Ina Garten
Ina, Bobby, and Ree are names that we use regularly in our conversations as if they were our friends. In some ways they are. We studied these celebrity chefs on the Food Network for years…
The Way to Engage Others: The Power of the Question Mark
“Use the question mark to generate reader curiosity and narrative energy”- Peter Roy Clark How easy is that? How bad could that be? How good is that? What couldn’t be better? Who wouldn’t want that?…
Spoons, Forks, Knives, Chopsticks- What Your Silverware Says About You
What you choose to eat with can give you clues about your personality and who you are. There is a children’s book called Spoon with anthropomorphized utensils. Little Spoon isn’t happy and wants to be…
The History of Burritos and a Chicken Bean Burrito Recipe
If the number of American Tex-Mex fast casual restaurants— Chipotle, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Qdoba, Taco Bell, Del Taco, Baja Fresh, and more— are any indication, burritos are a national favorite and for good reason—a flour…
Food in mid-18th century France: Disney’s Beauty & the Beast
Disney released Beauty and the Beast, a faithful yet fresh live-action re-telling of its 1991 animated classic. Cutting across generations, the film sets an all-time highest-grossing March opening in the U.S., with a $170 million…
Increase Your Literacy and Multiliteracy Through Food
Literacy and its newer, more complex cousin multiliteracy are terms that are used in the teaching world as ways to talk about what skills are needed to communicate. But these concepts are useful to those…
What Creatives Can Learn from 101 Dalmatians
Growing up, we would watch few movies, but when we did, it was usually in the Disney category. A particular favorite was 101 Dalmatians that we watched, partly in terror of the angular-shaped, purple-lipped, aptly-named…
Food for Jet Lag
Air travel takes a toll on your body and spirit. You may be returning from an invigorating hike through the Lake District, or a tranquil week lying in the sun in Waikiki, or a grueling…
How to Read Food Writing Texts
Do you love to write about food? Great writers are great readers. Learning how to read helps you become a better person. You think and write better. Your perspective broadens as you learn new things…