Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 18 November
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
wheelercentre.com
It's been a huge year in food media and for this Broadly Speaking talk, we'll bring together three superb food writers to chew over the debates and developments of 2020.
In the US, there were mass resignations at Conde Nast's hugely popular Bon Appetit YouTube channel, following allegations of racism and inequity. In Australia, the revamped Masterchef was hailed as the most diverse series yet. Viewers fell in love with new Singaporean-Australian judge Melissa Leong and the increased focus on Asian cuisines and ingredients.
Our ideas about authenticity, appropriation and representation are changing when it comes to food media. At this talk, we'll hear from three women who are a big part of this reckoning and reinvigoration across America and Australia: James Beard Award–winning writer and Ugly Delicious guest Osayi Endolyn, bestselling Sydney-based food writer and cook Hetty McKinnon and The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcaster and freelance writer Lee Tran Lam.
They'll talk about their personal food histories and philosophies, and how they’re working towards a more inclusive and delicious food world.
The Broadly Speaking series is proudly supported by Krystyna-Campbell Pretty AM and family.
Our online bookseller for this event will be Neighbourhood Books.
Featuring
Sonia Nair
Sonia Nair is Program Manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival as well as a writer and critic whose literary criticism and social commentary have been published by the Wheeler Centre, Kill Your Darlings, the Big Issue, Eureka Street and the Lifted Brow, among others. She has chaired conversations and interviews at the Emerging Writers' Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival and Footscray Community Arts Centre.
Lee Tran Lam
Lee Tran Lam is an Australian freelance journalist. She has written for various publications, including Good Food, Gourmet Traveller, SBS Food and the Guardian. She is the editor of the New Voices On Food book and is part of Diversity In Food Media Australia. She hosts The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcast and presents Local Fidelity on FBi radio. There is also a sandwich named after her.
Hetty McKinnon
Hetty McKinnon is a cook and food writer with a passion for vegetables. In 2011, she established Arthur Street Kitchen, a local salad-delivery business run out of her inner-city terrace in Surry Hills, Sydney. In 2015, Hetty and her family relocated to Brooklyn, New York City, where she continues to cook and write about food.
Hetty is the author of three bestselling cookbooks: Community (2015), Neighbourhood (2016) and the award-winning Family (2018). She is also the editor and publisher of multicultural food journal Peddler and the host of the magazine's podcast 'The House Specials'. She is a regular recipe contributor to ABC Life and Food & Wine and writes the column 'The Community Kitchen' for the Guardian. Hetty’s fourth cookbook is To Asia, With Love (2020).
Osayi Endolyn
Osayi Endolyn is a James Beard Award–winning writer with work in Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Eater, Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveler and the Oxford American. She appears in Chef’s Table and Ugly Delicious on Netflix, and is featured on NPR’s 1A, Splendid Table, and the Sporkful podcast for which she won a Webby. She is co-author of The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food with Marcus Samuelsson, and is writing a book about historic systemic racism in American restaurant and dining culture for Amistad/HarperCollins.