Thursday, December 4, 2008

I love it when Ben’s features end up in an anthology. Makes me proud. This year he scored twice with Wired stories… his Meteor Farmer story appears in The Best of Technology Writing 2008(University of Michigan Press), and his cloned meat story in The Best Food Writing 2008 (DaCapo Press, Perseus Books).

This from the LA Times today…

Wired may have a future as a food magazine. Ben Paynter’s “The Other Other White Meat,” about cloned cows and pigs and their role in our food chain, is not just intelligent and measured, but also good investigative journalism. He eats a steak from a clone and gets a farmer to reveal that you might have eaten one too.

Foodies will no doubt be familiar with some of the pieces here, but because editor Holly Hughes has tapped such a broad range of sources, there will be some new, appetizing discoveries. And that’s what good food writing is all about.

– Carolyn Kellogg

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