BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Halifax X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Halifax BEGIN:VEVENT UID:172@devourfest.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20151107T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20151107T153000 DTSTAMP:20150925T130933Z URL:https://devourfest.com/program/perfect-pages/ SUMMARY:Perfect Pages DESCRIPTION:Whether we access it through cookbooks\, newspapers\, or online \, food writing inspires us. It tells us stories and teaches us how to acc ess all sorts of culinary knowledge. But the game is changing for the writ ers\, editors\, publishers and readers of food writing in all its forms.  What is important when pitching/writing/researching/editing/publishing a cookbook? What impact has the internet had on how we access recipes\, foo d writing\, or even the authors themselves? What are the right (and wrong) moves in forging a path in food writing? What about getting paid? These a re but some of the topics we will touch in this panel discussion on the ch anging shape of food writing.\n\nConfirmed Participants: Ivy Knight (Swall ow Daily\, Vice Magazine) – Moderator\, Whitney Moran (Nimbus Publishing )\, Naomi Duguid (naomiduguid.com)\, Anita Stewart (Food Day Canada)\, Les ley Chesterman (Montréal Gazette)\n\n\n\nNaomi Duguid\n\nNaomi Duguid is a food-culture-focussed traveler\, writer\, and photographer. She is the c o-author of six award-winning books of food and travel: Hot Sour Salty Swe et: A Culinary Journey Through South-East Asia\, Seductions of Rice\, Flat breads and Flavors\, Mangoes and Curry Leaves\, HomeBaking\, and Beyond th e Great Wall: Recipes and Stories from the Other China. Her most recent bo ok\, Burma: Rivers of Flavor\, explores daily home-cooked foods in their c ultural context through stories\, recipes\, and photographs.\n\nNaomi is n ow working on a cookbook\, tentatively titled Greater Persia\, that explor es the Persian culinary region\, to be published in 2016. Her travels for the book have taken her to Azerbaijan\, Armenia\, Georgia\, Iran\, and Kur distan\, to eat\, to photograph\, and to connect with people…\n\nNaomi l eads an intensive cultural-immersion-through-food sessions in northern Tha iland each winter\, and frequently speaks at food conferences. Her work fr equently appears in Lucky Peach.\n\n\n\nIvy Knight\n\nIvy Knight is a food writer (Munchies)\, cookbook author (HarperCollins) and former cook. Her website\, SwallowDaily.com\, is devoted to all things food\, booze and pop culture\, and is geared to the FOH &\; BOH demographic. She hosts even ts and pop-ups with a number of Toronto-based restaurant groups and confer ences (the Drake Properties\, Terroir Symposium\, Icon Group and others)\, bringing in chefs and restaurateurs from around the world. She grew up in PEI\, but having been born in BC she will always be considered from away. \n\n\n\nJudith Olney\n\nBorn and schooled in Michigan\, (MA in English Lit erature from MSU)\, I taught for two years at Drake University\, Des Moine s\, Iowa.  Married and went with my Fulbright scholar husband to Liberia for two years where we both taught at a college deep in the bush. Spent th e following two years in London where I worked for English cookery writer Elizabeth David and interned at the Connaught Hotel and the Westminster Ho tel School.   \n\nI opened a cookery school in 1973 and published six co okbooks including “Comforting Food”\, “Summer Food”\, and “The F arm Market Cookbook”. “Entertainments” and “The Joy of Chocolate ”\, (the best selling chocolate cookbook ever written) were both James B eard Tastemaker award winners.  Wrote countless articles for magazines (G ourmet\, House &\;Garden\, Prevention\, Conde Nast’s Traveler) and wo rked as a media spokesperson for General Mills\, Cadbury Chocolates\, The American Tea Council\, etc.  Appeared on Regis Philbin\; The Today Show\; Good Morning America\, CBS this morning\, etc\,\n\nIn 1989\, I moved to W ashington to become the restaurant critic and food editor at the Washingto n Times. As a long time traveler to Russia\,  I covered the supposed “f ood shortage”   in  1991-92\,  chased Hillary Clinton\, lunched on b ean soup with Sen. Alan Simpson in the Senate dining room\, and took Penn and Teller restaurant reviewing.\n\nSince moving to Florida\, I’ve led t rips for The Four Arts Society to farms around Lake Okeechobee and to exot ic food stores\, and  taught classes in writing about food and how to mak e antique botanicals.\n\nMy first film\, “Swank Farm” won Audience Fav orite Documentary at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in March a nd is currently on tour to other festivals.  \n\n\n\nLesley Chesterman\n\ nLesley Chesterman has been the fine-dining critic and food columnist for The Montreal Gazette since 1998. Her work has also appeared in The Art of Eating\, Gourmet Magazine\, Nuvo\, The Globe and Mail\, The National Post\ , Food Arts\, Fool Magazine\, the New York Post and Eater.com… so it’s safe to say that she knows her stuff.\n\nPrior to her career in food writ ing\, she attended the Institut de Tourisme et d’Hotellerie du Quebec fo r three years before working as a professional pastry chef in Quebec and i n France. She then worked for several years as a cooking teacher for profe ssionals and amateur chefs alike. Lesley participates in two weekly radio shows: in French on the Radio-Canada program Médium Large as their gastro nomy reporter and on CHOM FM as host of their "Foodies Rock" segment. As i f all of these accolades weren’t enough\, she has also written three boo ks\, Boulangerie et Patisserie: Techniques de Base (2001)\, and Flavourvil le: Lesley Chesterman’s Guide to Dining out in Montreal (2002 and 2003). \n\n\n\nAnita Stewart\n\nAnita Stewart\, Founder and President of Food Day Canada and Senior Editor of Taste and Travel Magazine\, has quite the imp ressive resume on her hands.\n\nIn 2009 she was named a Guelph Woman of Di stinction and in that same year was inducted as an Honourary Lifetime Memb er of the Canadian Culinary Federation of Chefs and Cooks. Shortly after\, she was awarded a Doctor of Laws (Honouris causa) from the University of Guelph’s College of Management &\; Economics and in 2012 was invested into the Order of Canada. In 2012\, she was named the University of Guelp h’s Food Laureate\, a first for both Canada and the world. She was also the recipient of the Chairman’s Award\, Ontario Hostelry Institute in th e same year.\n\nAnita is the first Canadian to earn a Master of Arts in Ga stronomy from the University of Adelaide in South Australia\; has authored or co-authored 14 books on Canadian foods and wines and is a regular on C BC Radio. Above and beyond her many accolades\, one of her greatest accomp lishments is Food Day Canada\, a pan-Canadian event that celebrates the su mmer’s bounty in our most respected restaurants.\n\n\n\nWhitney Moran\n\ n\nWhitney Moran is the senior editor with Atlantic Canada's largest book publisher\, Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press. In her other life as a be er enthusiast\, she writes about her favourite beverage for The Coast\, Th e Chronicle Herald\, and Occasions magazine. whitneymoran.ca ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://devourfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/0 9/rsz_1anita_stewart-1-e1442517275207.jpg LOCATION:Al Whittle Theatre - Studio Z\, 450 Main St\, Wolfville\, NS\, B4P 1E2\, Canada GEO:45.091618;-64.362640 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=450 Main St\, Wolfville\, N S\, B4P 1E2\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Al Whittle Theatre - Studi o Z:geo:45.091618,-64.362640 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Halifax BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR