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food writing

food writing noun: writing that focuses on food.

Noun

food writing (uncountable)

  1. Writing that focuses on food.
    • Willem and I ate some really terrible meals in the early days of our marriage. Let me tell you, food writing is not the idylls of the king, even Old King Cole.1993, Jo Brans, “Strange Fruit”, in Feast Here Awhile: Adventures in American Eating, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, page 149
    • He understands that the best food writing is not so much about how the grub is, but about who’s eating it and why.1994 February 6, Karen Stabiner, “Food as Social History: JAMES BEARD, By Robert Clark (HarperCollins: $27.50, 357 pp.)”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications...

Forms of food writing

alternative formfood-writing
alternative formfoodwriting

Questions about food writing

What does food writing mean?
Food writing means writing that focuses on food.
What part of speech is food writing?
Food writing is a noun.

Words near food writing in the dictionary

  1. food webs
  2. food wrap
  3. food wraps
  4. food writer
  5. food writers
  6. food writing
  7. food-borne
  8. food-borne disease
  9. food-borne diseases
  10. food-borne illness
  11. food-borne illnesses

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