Food and Wine Tasting Masterclass in Chartres, France
18 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2014
Exploring the Food and Wine of the Beauce and the Loire Valley
with James Flewellen and Jonell Galloway
Through a series of tutored workshops, this 4-day weekend workshop will help unlock your tastebuds and introduce the richness of aromas, flavors and textures present in food and wine. Our exploration is enabled through local food from the Beauce and wine from the Loire Valley and coincides with the Chartres Festival of Lights and the Autumnal Equinox.
For course details click here and to make your reservation click here.
The Rambling Epicure is a daily international food chronicle, and the first online journal to follow global food trends and news. It was founded by Jonell Galloway (LINK to TRE About) in 2009.
Based in Switzerland, The Rambling Epicure innovated by joining the voices of food writers and artists from around the world to promote a mindful, responsible approach to real food shopping, cooking, and eating. Then as now, big interests around here are food politics, sustainability, safety, history, and the art, literature and philosophies that accompany accompany those concerns.
We have a keen interest in identifying the food writers of the future. Are you one of them?
Many are in graduate programs in Food Studies now. Or they are students in other, less obviously related fields. With the rapidly changing foodscape, they will take on undreamt of challenges. In fact, they have already begun to do so.
Because concision is not only our favorite word, but a guiding principle we hew to and teach, we sponsor a competition four times yearly, for student food writers who have up to 500 words to show us.
Since its founding in 2009, The Rambling Epicure has been blessed with the presence of established writers in the field of food. Our focus has always been on good writing and we will continue to publish notable writers who have a reputation in the field.
The Rambling Epicure platform has become a meeting point for all types of food writing. If you are a professional writer in search of good company and have a spectacular piece of writing but no platform, or if you think The Rambling Epicure is the right place for you to publish, feel free to contact us to send it our way.
Student writers often lack serious platforms for publication of their work. The Rambling Epicure will be that platform, focusing on food writing. You can publish right alongside well-known food writers from around the world and grow accustomed to being in the company of writers of like mind.
Focus on a category and let us know where you think you fit when you send in your manuscript.
How to Get Published
The Rambling Epicure platform is a meeting point for all types of food writing. We will regularly publish outstanding writing from student writers. If you have a spectacular piece of writing, feel free to send it our way to info@theramblingepicure.com.
In The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, Simon Schama tells of the sickening tensions produced in 17th-century Amsterdam when far too much in the way of material goods sat badly with an ethic that twinned virtue and thrift. The Dutch were suddenly able to have anything they could name, from anywhere in the known world. Immediately, they began ascribing sinfulness to certain new foodstuffs, candied fruit being high on their long list of gruesome luxuries.
Dutch painting of the 17th century illuminates a question familiar to us now: Has splendor beyond dreaming no moral dimension? Paintings such as this — Still Life, by Adriaen van Utrecht, painted in 1644 and now in the Rijksmuseum — both celebrate and condemn the expanding sensual world, full of the transient beauty that distracts without sustaining, but that so delights us. We too know that struggle, that makes it hard to think of the rarest and most wondrous foods without ambivalence.
For a writer, is it a matter of tone? Or one of content?
Elatia Harris is a writer and consulting editor in Cambridge, Mass. She is most often at work on books and articles about food, wine and travel. Contact her at elatiaharrisATgmailDOTcom or via text at 617-599-7159.
Food Writing Prompt: When Blotting Paper Gets Most of Your Ink
by Elatia Harris
This young woman, painted by Foujita in 1948, puts a pensive face on a harrowing dilemma — failing to make a good enough start on writing to have the courage to finish. Her blotting paper is the record of her distress, our deletions the record of our own. Looks like she’s hoping a second glass of wine will get her over the hump — the little saucers under the glass tell us, and her waiter, how many she’s had. My guess is that her heart is too full. What should she do? What would you do?
Elatia Harris is a writer and consulting editor in Cambridge, Mass. She is most often at work on books and articles about food, wine and travel. Contact her at elatiaharrisATgmailDOTcom or via text at 617-599-7159.
Food blogging is one of the best ways to start food writing, and you can hone your skills as you go. You don’t have to be an experienced writer to start a blog. Your blog can serve as your playground as your writing improves. Blogs get your name out in public. Food bloggers are motivated and they invest a lot of time in their blogs, but many have a goal of eventually publishing their work.
How to Get Published
The Rambling Epicure platform is a meeting point for all types of food writing. We will regularly publish outstanding writing from food bloggers. If you have a spectacular piece of writing, feel free to send it our way to info@theramblingepicure.com.
