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Your support makes all the difference.Mark Bittman, American food journalist and author of Food Matters and How to Cook Everything, has re-launched his site with a new vision and deemed it a "slog", defined as a salon-blog combination.
On May 3, Bittman posted the following, "starting today ...we're going to try to slog our way forward, so that eventually, there'll be even more here - a place to share and comment on recipes, on eating styles and changing habits, a place to offer your own variations, pictures, videos. A place where you can participate in a variety of ways. A conversation."
"The starting place for the slog is a kind of community table, where people gather to share ideas, opinions, experiences, and news about food. We're going to have first-rate contributors, old professionals and new, reporters, thinkers, and cooks (sometimes people who are all three), writing about topics that will be diverse, interesting, and sometimes controversial. (Soon, we're going to solicit contributions from anyone who wants to join us. This Means You.)"
Not only will Bittman be posting daily, here are some additional highlights expected this week:
- Former Gourmet food politics reporter Barry Estabrook, gives weekly update on what's going on in the world of food politics and policy
- Outlaw cook John Thorne, a brilliant cook and food writer who is co-author (with Matt Thorne, his wife), of Simple Cooking, a the best food newsletter ever, a bloggy publication that predates the word "blog"
- The Value of Nothing author Raj Patel, a young and persuasive new voice in the world of food politics and economics
- Pam Anderson, a fantastic home cook, fellow alumnus of the old Cook's Magazine, author of a bunch of great books including Perfect Recipes for Having People Over, and the brains (with her daughters) behind threemanycooks.com
If you want to "Lose Weight! Save the Planet! Become a Lessmeatarian!" check out the new slog: http://markbittman.com plus the How to Cook Everything iPhone application of the entire book is available via iTunes for €3.99.
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