Gastro-intro-writus

I know we don't take the Guardian here and esp on Summer Saturdays but you will be able to access this "A Taste for words" online. It's almost as if it was written for our students interesting in food writing, culinary memoirs and gastrature (i made that 1 up) . It's an excellent artricle by Kathryn Hughes charting the growth and changing nature of food writing in the last 10 years or so and i'm gratified to find that most of the best ones mentioned: Fast food nation , In defence of food , Kitchen Confidential , Risotto with nettles , The settler's cookbook , Toast , British regional food , we would have in the library. Though ones we did miss and must try and get are "The Glasgow cookery book" published 100 years ago as the core text of the Glasgow College of Domestic Science, and "The Making of Mr Hai's daughter". The best writings in periodicals is to found in Gastronomica and Petits Propos Culinaires. though she laments the passing of Gourmet (and see post from 25th Nov 2008), partly due to the rise of food blogs.........