Blogs with Tweet Sauce: The Future of Recipes
Posted on 16. Feb, 2009 by Birdsong in Events, Hotel, RS Food Writers Conf, Uncategorized
The Internet and television cooking shows have irrevocably changed the way cooks search out and use recipes. How do we deal with the challenges of this new environment? What recipes can we trust? Is the on-line community fostered by recipe ratings of any value? This panel will explore the future of recipes, their reliability, their validity as cultural documents, and their impact on how people learn to cook and go about preparing daily meals.
Lorna Sass, chair
Elissa Altman
Melissa Clark
Barbara Haber
Amanda Hesser
Sarah Kagan
Barbara Ostmann
RS Hotel Food Writers’ Conf: The Future of Food Writing on the Internet
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Editor in Events, Hotel, RS Food Writers Conf
This panel was exploring how the continually changing, ever-evolving world of Internet technology is impacting food writers. Will technology make it easier–or harder–for writers to make a living? Will there come a time when a writer can completely sidestep traditional media and become successful, financially and critically? How will developing technologies impact–positively and negatively–the industry
The Panel
David Leite, chair
Elissa Altman
Joe Langhan
Bonnie Tandy Leblang
Renee Schletter
RS Hotel Food Writers’ Conf: From Websites to Blogs to Facebook
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Editor in Events, Hotel, RS Food Writers Conf
Food writing has progressed from tiny triangular marks impressed in clay tablets, stored in heaps in Mesopotamia, to much tinier magnetic impressions stored somewhere “out there” in cyberspace. Changes in the medium may change the message, but the goal is the same: writers want readers to experience their work—what’s different is that readers get to respond to writers more directly than ever before. Like it or not, food writing is not likely to change back to the one-directional medium it once was.
The Panel
Gary Allen, chair
Irena Chalmers
Mitchell Davis
Bret Thorn
Laura Weiss
RS Hotel Food Writers’ Conf: TV and Beyond – Future of Food & Cooking in Broadcast Media
Posted on 16. Jan, 2009 by Editor in Events, Hotel, RS Food Writers Conf
Beginning with home economist-hosted programs in the 1940s, cooking on television has evolved over the last sixty plus years into a phenomenal industry and pastime. What does the future of food media look like and where/how will we view it? Who will be our guides? What will we be taught and how and what will we learn?
The Panel
Kathleen Collins, chair
Geof Drummond
Joe Langhan
Dana Polan
Krishnendu Ray
Kate Rohmann
