{"id":688187,"date":"2010-03-10T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:33:07","slug":"oxford-american-food-issue-hits-newsstands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/688187","title":{"rendered":"Oxford American Food Issue hits newsstands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2763\" title=\"oacover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/diners-oxford-custom1-233x300.jpg?resize=233%2C300\" alt=\"oacover\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/issues\/latest_issue\/\"><strong>Oxford American Food Issue<\/strong><\/a> is now out on newsstands.\u00a0 (We all remember what those are, right?)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bounteous meat-and-three of Southern food writing &#8212; lots of meaty features and compelling side stories, a few of which are up online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Todd Kliman<\/strong>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/2010\/feb\/24\/todd-kliman-chases-perfect-chef\/\">heartfelt piece<\/a> about his obsession with the Chinese chef Peter Chang, who briefly cooked at Tasty China in Marietta. It cuts deeper (and funnier) than Calvin Trillin&#8217;s recent New Yorker piece on Chang, which was told from a bemused distance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beth Ann Fennelly<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/2010\/mar\/09\/wide-world-eating-dirt\/\">writes about the widespread practice of geophagy<\/a>, or dirt eating, that is particularly prevalent in the rural poor South. Ever see those little packages of white kaolin sold at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market produce stands?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warwick Sabin<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/2010\/mar\/08\/rich-get-thinner-poor-get-fatter\/\">ponders the reasons why the obesity epidemic affects the Southern poor<\/a> so disproportionately. The &#8220;fresh, local food&#8221; now so in vogue is becoming a luxury item, the author argues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brandon Reynolds<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/articles\/2010\/mar\/08\/brandon-reynolds-finds-southern-meals-la-wheels\/\">looks at the Mattie&#8217;s Southern &#0133;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Oxford American Food Issue is now out on newsstands.\u00a0 (We all remember what those are, right?) It&#8217;s a bounteous meat-and-three of Southern food writing &#8212; lots of meaty features and compelling side stories, a few of which are up online: Todd Kliman&#8217;s heartfelt piece about his obsession with the Chinese chef Peter Chang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2T1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}