About: Jonell Galloway

Jonell Galloway grew up on Wendell Berry and food straight from a backyard Kentucky garden. She is a freelance writer. She attended Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris, worked for the GaultMillau restaurant guide, CityGuides and other restaurant guides in France and Paris, and for Gannett Company in the U.S., and collaborated on Le tour du monde en 80 pains / Around the World with 80 Breads with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac in France; André Raboud, Sculptures 2002-2009 in Switzerland; Ma Cuisine Méditerranéenne with Christophe Certain in France, and a biography of French chef Pierre Gagnaire. Before moving to Switzerland, she ran a cooking school called Spontaneous Cuisine in France, and in the U.S., a farm-to-table restaurant called The Three Sisters, which she owned with her two sisters. She organizes the Taste Unlocked bespoke food and wine tasting awareness workshops with James Flewellen, a wine tasting specialist. She is an active member of Slow Food and runs the food-writing website and Facebooks pages under the moniker The Rambling Epicure. Her work has been published in numerous international publications and broadcast on public radio.

10 Classic Writers Who Talk About Food

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, October 27, 2014 Permalink 3

by Jonell Galloway

Food writing is not confined to food writers. After all, food concerns us all and we all have something to say about it. Some use it as metaphor, others as porn. Here are a few examples from classic literature.

Food as the Essence of Being Human: M.F.K. Fisher

Fisher went straight to the point. Food was intertwined in almost all she wrote and used as a metaphor for the need for love in life. It was inescapable connected with its opposite, hunger.

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.”

M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

Food, Heaven and Hell: Barbara Kingsolver

“Tortolita, let me tell you a story,” Estevan said. “This is a South American, wild Indian story about heaven and hell.” Mrs. Parsons made a prudish face, and Estevan went on. “If you go visit hell, you will see a room like this kitchen. There is a pot of delicious stew on the table, with the most delicate aroma you can imagine. All around, people sit, like us. Only they are dying of starvation. They are jibbering and jabbering,” he looked extra hard at Mrs. Parsons, “but they cannot get a bit of this wonderful stew God has made for them. Now, why is that?”

“Because they’re choking? For all eternity?” Lou Ann asked. Hell, for Lou Ann, would naturally be a place filled with sharp objects and small round foods.

The Kate Middleton Diet

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Permalink 1

Everyone is interested in Kate Middleton’s diet(s), especially now that she is pregnant with her second child

by Jonell Galloway

Everyone is interested in Kate Middleton’s diet, but is there really anything we can rightly called The Kate Middleton Diet?

There is more conjecture than anything, and it makes for lots of print in the British tabloids.

Most tabloids claim that Kate Middleton, now Duchess of Cambridge, followed the Dukan Diet to lose weight for her wedding. Pierre Dukan, founder of the protein-based, low-carb diet, told the New York Daily News that Middleton lost far too much weight before her wedding, but stated that it is still safe for her to continue it during her second pregnancy, despite her severe case of hyperemesis gravidarum, characterized by severe nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and electrolyte disturbance during pregnancy.

But word has it that this is just one of the diets Kate has done. Apparently, another diet secret which she followed it during her first pregnancy, and now follows two days a week, is an all-juice diet.

To lose weight after her first pregnancy, The Daily Mail reported that Kate went on a raw diet, munching on only ceviche, goji berries, gazpacho, watermelon salad, almond milk and tabbouleh.

The Dukan Diet is a classic diet French women use to control their weight. The French site Baby Book agrees with Dr. Dukan that it is safe to continue the diet during pregnancy, and that the days of women eating for two are behind us. Of course, Dukan was banned from practicing medicine in his native France in 2013. Both his U.K. and American sites have been removed. The French domain name, dukandiet.fr, is reportedly for sale.

In Touch Weekly alleges that Middleton is anorexic.

Since graduating from college, the Duchess of Cambridge is said to have gone from a size 10 or 12 to a size 6.

Controversy surround Kate’s seemingly favorite diet or weight control secrets and will undoubtedly continue to be followed closely both by the press and readers for years to come.

References

Food & Wine Tasting Masterclass, Chartres, France

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, July 30, 2014 Permalink 1

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.

Contact: info@tasteunlocked.com.

The Rambling Epicure History

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, July 29, 2014 Permalink 0

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.

Competitions

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

Food Writing Competitions

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.

Professional Writers

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

How to get published, how to become a food writer

Publish – Professional Writers

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.

Food Writing Prompts: M.F.K. Fisher

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

The Gastronomical Me. by MFK Fisher, photo courtesy of http://www.chanticleerbooks.com/shop/chanticleer/20267.html

Food Writing Prompts: M.F.K. Fisher

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.–M.F.K. Fisher

Student Writers

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

Student writing, how to get published, food writing. The Rambling Epicure. Mastering the Art of Food Writing, Jonell Galloway, Elatia Harris

Publish – Student Writers

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.

Food Writing Prompt: Maria Callas in the Kitchen

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Permalink 0

Publish – Food Bloggers

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, July 10, 2014 Permalink 1

Publish – Food Bloggers

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.