Why Aren’t We Translating Food Media?

The dominance of food writing in English reinforces cultural divisions

Alicia Kennedy
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7 min readJun 29, 2020

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Half an avocado with seed sits between two miniature translation dictionaries
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Before I was a food writer, before I ever thought about being a food writer, I was attempting a life of literary criticism — almost exclusively done for…

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Alicia Kennedy
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I’m a food writer from Long Island based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter on food issues: aliciakennedy.substack.com