Food Writing 101

I'm lucky that I live in such a great city. Chicago, while occasionally too wet, too cold, and/or too windy, is overall a great place to live. For example, I have access to one of the best libraries in the world: The Newberry.

And I'm also lucky in that The Newberry Library has amazing seminars like the one I took today (and will be taking the second half of next weekend): Food Writing 101.

That's right. To ensure that Your Daily Bourbon and Bacon continues to evolve and bring you the cutting edge reporting on bacon and bourbon that you, the reading public, need, we're trying to improve our writing skills. So for your review, here's a little something that we put together as a writing exercise on cupcakes:

Cupcakes
It's almost tragic that a pleasure as simple as the cupcake has become an emblem for the steady homogenization of Chicago's neighborhoods. The faux-hipster DIY crowd has flooded gentrifying neighborhoods with an overabundance of small bakeries, each churning out mass produced and mostly tasteless cupcake sized status symbols with equally ridculous prices.

The chemical leavening, butter flavored shortening, and easy convenience have replaced genuine work in the kitchen. And what we think is sweet nostalgia is simply our palate misidentifying the bitter tast of failure. Failure to be diverse.

Not too bad for about 5 minutes work, huh?

Our hope here at Your Daily Bourbon and Bacon is that we will continue to grow as writers and bring you incisive, well-written, fun, and occasionally snarky (we love the snark here!) posts.