It’s not that it’s easy, it’s that it’s always been hard.
While none of us peasants can exactly argue with her, some food writers have tried to see the brighter side in Amanda Hesser’s argument that entering food writing is not lucrative, and is actually quite ludicrous. Chow flips the switch by saying that “where Hesser is wrong” was assuming that this is a new turn events, eloquently reminding young gastro-literary hopefuls that “food writing was always a shitty way to make a living.” Lovely! [Chow]
