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About Jonell Galloway

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 1, 2014 Permalink 1

About Jonell Galloway

I’m Jonell Galloway. I grew up on Wendell Berry and food straight from a backyard Kentucky garden.

The library and my grandparents’ garden and table were my favorite hangouts as a child, and the rest of my life has evolved around them. My house is like an overflowing library, and the “fruits” of my kitchen delight the palates and noses of our family, neighbors and friends. Somehow, I managed to live in France, Switzerland and Italy and explore the wide range of food and wine in those countries.

I had a vision of promoting the loves of my life, food and writing, so I founded the non-profit e-zine/website The Rambling Epicure in 2009.

My viewpoints about food and writing are my own and are only influenced by my reading, travels and first-hand knowledge. I believe in real food grown in a caring, loving environment without industrial processing. I don’t promote anything – no restaurants, no writers, no brand names – that I don’t truly believe in.

The people I frequent often have the same philosophy but that is not exclusive. Many are chefs, writers and artists who uphold similar ideals and seek similar goals; others are fellow travelers in life.

If you’d like to become part of my world and share my personal food and travel adventures on social media, you can follow me here:

The Rambling Epicure

Food writing and word mastering have always been my line of work. The Rambling Epicure promotes the best food writing by the best chefs and writers in the field. We also have two Facebook groups The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing and Culinary Travel by Jonell Galloway, The Rambling Epicure, where we have very hearty Facebook discussions about food, travel, writing, and reflections on writing. Our community is inhabited by food-centric people from many walks of life.

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.

About

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

The Rambling Epicure was founded by Jonell Galloway in 2009. From its inception, it has showcased professional and high quality food writing and photography.

Jonell grew up on Wendell Berry and food straight from a backyard Kentucky garden. She attended Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris as well as the Academie du Vin. She ran a cooking school in France, and owned a farm-to-table restaurant, The Three Sisters’ Café, with her two sisters in the U.S. Jonell is a freelance writer who has worked for the GaultMillau guides The Best of France and The Best of Paris and for CityGuides, amongst others. She has collaborated on many projects including Le tour du monde en 80 pains with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac in France, At the Table: Food and Family around the World with Ken Albala, Ma Cuisine Méditerranéenne with Christophe Certain, André Raboud: Sculptures 2002-2008, and the biography of Pierre Gagnaire.

Competitions

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, July 24, 2014 Permalink 0

Food Writing Competition

We are seeking food-related fiction and non-fiction entries for our First Annual Food Writing Competition. We want to highlight what can be vividly done in very few words. You have wanted to try your hand at the greatest possible concision, have you not? This is your chance to be rewarded for that. Winners will be published on Mastering the Art of Food Writing, and qualify to compete for inclusion in the first annual Food Writers to Keep an Eye On 2015 eBook we plan to publish in 2016.

Entries should be a maximum of 500 words, and may treat any food-related subject. This covers the full spectrum of food and travel writing: memoirs; short stories; reviews; poems; travelogues; essays; guidebooks entries; lifestyle; adventure; destination features; history; and, anthropology. Not sure that’s you? Write us to ask.

Submissions should convey a passion for food and a strong desire to summon up its wonders so as to transport others. It should solicit readers to ask deeper questions about themselves and the world. It should be well crafted, demonstrate animated descriptive skills, have a clear voice and solid structure, and be from a well-defined point of view.

Submissions should be print-ready, in MS Word file format, with clean formatting, by September 30, 2015.

Winners will receive:

1st prize 1 hour of free writing instruction and publication on The Rambling Epicure
2nd prize 1/2 hour of free writing instruction and publication on The Rambling Epicure
3rd prize 1/2 hour of free writing instruction

We look forward to hearing from you. Be assured, if you are a first time writer, we are looking for you.

Please note: Professional writers with a publishing background are not eligible for this competition.

Food Writing Prompt: Maria Callas in the Kitchen

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

Food Writing Prompts: Style Guide

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, April 14, 2014 Permalink 0

Keep calm and use a style guide.

Tackling Obesity through Food Relationships

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, April 10, 2014 Permalink 0

Swiss Food

by Jonell Galloway

I was recently interviewed for a Swiss Info documentary called “Finding the Right Food Formula.” In the context of recent childhood obesity figures in Switzerland, Veronica De Vore is exploring the Swiss relationship to food and how that might have changed, how it might be related to the rise in childhood obesity.

Click here to listen to the show. I cooked a Kentucky Fried Chicken feast for Veronica, while discussing the more serious matter of relationships to food in the context of my work in mindful eating. (The article also includes an abridged recipe for my grandmothers’ traditional Kentucky Fried Chicken.)

Jonell’s Proustian Rambling

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, April 9, 2014 Permalink 0

Be the poem. Write the poem of your life every day through your kind words and good deeds. When your nights are dark, rise up. Take the rays of the morning sun into your heart and warm it again. Keep writing your poem.

Flowers on the Thiou Canal in Annecy

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Permalink 0

Flowers on the Thiou Canal in Annecy, France: Documentary Travel Photos, by Jonell Galloway

April 8, 2014 The flowers are in bloom in the canal town of Annecy in France

Jonell’s Proustian Rambling

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, April 4, 2014 Permalink 0

Peter and I are eating dinner. Chopin’s Etudes play in the background; we sit in the midst of our eclectic collection of objets d’art from France and Italy and more exotic ones from Tibet, Persia, India. I am in my element. I am surrounded by music, poetry and art. How have I come to this? My mother. For her, life has been poetry, art, and music, syncopated with dramatic andantes and crescendos, tearing at her guts and ripping them wide open. She took it all in; she swathed herself in its drapery of blood-wrenched red and chilly blue pain. She has not gone gently into that good night; she is a fearless survivor. She has lived through earthquakes and hurricanes and always landed on her feet. I continue to write the poem of my life, blunder through the Gymnopèdes. Mother is playing Scarbo, flitting in and out of the darkness, disappearing and suddenly reappearing. I touch her hand. She hands me a pen.