Our new partners: The Art of Eating
Thoughtful, erudite, opinionated pieces from a publication that helped shape my own work
We’re proud to announce our new content partnership with the Art of Eating, the beautiful, thoughtful, idiosyncratic, opinionated and erudite food quarterly by Edward Behr. Every other week or so, they’ll be sharing with us a favorite from their archives or something new that’s been piquing their interest and itching to be put into the world.
We’re especially proud to be the Art of Eating’s online partner, as it continues to focus its own energies into producing the most beautiful print object it can.
But it’s from a personal perspective that the honor feels most extraordinary. As a young cook, I was guided to the Art of Eating by a great mentor, and in its pages I discovered whole new ways of thinking about food. Through 10,000-word histories of the baguette to long, wandering explorations of the meaning of Sicilian food, it exposed me to the notion that, like politics, all food is local. In a world where the “locavore” is a rare exception rather than a rule, that seems like a strange thing to say. But reading the Art of Eating, I learned that great cooking and great cuisine is more than ingredients and technique, but the product of people, passionate people grounded in their place and time.
That lesson has guided my own work for years. Please welcome the Art of Eating to Salon, subscribe, enjoy.
Francis Lam is Features Editor at Gilt Taste, provides color commentary for the Cooking Channel show Food(ography), and tweets at @francis_lam. More Francis Lam.
Help Salon win another Webby!
We're up against titans like the New York Times and NPR. Here's how to vote for the scrappy, Web-only nominee
Salon’s won its share of Webby awards over the years, going back to the early days when Tiffany Shlain and Maya Draisin ran them from San Francisco. We picked up the People’s Voice award for best Web magazine in 2006.
This year we’ve been honored with a nomination for best news site, along with the New York Times, NPR, the BBC and Guardian. It’s high praise just to be mentioned in that company, whether we win or not. We can also win the People’s Voice award for news, if enough of our audience votes.
So what are you waiting for? It’s easy: Begin by registering here (it’ll only take a second). Then you can vote for sites within all of the categories, or simply go here to vote for Salon in the news category.
We wouldn’t be here without our devoted audience. Thanks for all you do — and if you can take another minute to vote, we’d be grateful.
Joan Walsh is Salon's editor at large. More Joan Walsh.
Salon screening today: Sneak peek for Abramoff doc
Sign up to watch -- today! -- an online advance screening for new "Casino Jack"
The fine folks at Participant Media have offered some select passes for Salon readers interested in seeing an advance screening of “Casino Jack,” the upcoming documentary from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”). The Jack in question is one Jack Abramoff, and the film is billed as “a twisting tale in which a small group of charming con men use the power of the purse, the zealotry of religion and bare-knuckled political brawling to loot the American government for fun, ideals and profit.”
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Salon's editor debates the state's disturbing new immigration policy. Plus, Kelsey Grammer's right-wing network
Editor Joan Walsh made an appearance this afternoon on MSNBC’s “Ed Show,” where she vigorously debated the new Arizona immigration law with Republican strategist John Feehery. She went on to talk about Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral hopes and Kelsey Grammer’s right-wing TV channel, which launches this summer. Check out the clip below.
Our new partners: Barnes & Noble Review
We’re proud to announce a new content-sharing relationship with the Barnes & Noble Review, Barnes & Noble’s online arts and books magazine. We’ve long admired the thoughtful reviews and essays that appear on B&N Review, and look forward to them appearing in the Salon Books section, supplementing the definitive takes from our own Laura Miller, and Salon staff essays and interviews. As part of the partnership, selected pieces from Salon will in turn appear on B&N Review; Salon will also be exclusively using Barnes & Noble as the place we link to when we think readers may want to purchase a book. Our first piece is a review of a new biography of the fascinating Muriel Spark by Maud Newton, one of our favorite writers on books. Enjoy!
Kerry Lauerman is Salon's Editor in Chief. Follow him on Twitter: @kerrylauerman. More Kerry Lauerman.
Joan Walsh talks partisanship on “Morning Joe”
Salon's editor discusses the Tea Party, Rahm Emanuel and whether the left has an equivalent to Limbaugh
This morning, Joan Walsh appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to talk about bipartisanship and the media. Click below to see her comments on why Rahm Emanuel isn’t all that extreme, what the definition of a gun nut is, and why she’s not afraid of Tea Partiers. (Also check out when host Mika Brzezinski refers to — but won’t name — a left-wing version of Rush Limbaugh.)
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