322: What It’s Like Being Food & Dining Editor of The Washington Post w/ Joe Yonan, The Washington Post [Main T4C episode]

Joe Yonan is the Food and Dining editor of The Washington Post, supervising all food coverage in the features department.  He writes The Post’s Weeknight Vegetarian column and for five years wrote the Cooking for One column, both of which have won honors from the Association of Food Journalists. He is also the author of the upcoming “Cool Beans” (Ten Speed Press, 2020) due to be published in February 2020. He was the editor of “America The Great Cookbook” (Weldon Owen, 2017) and has written two cookbooks for Ten Speed Press: “Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook” (2013) and “Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One” (2011). Yonan was a food writer and travel section editor at the Boston Globe before moving to Washington in 2006 to edit The Post’s Food section. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: What the Food and Dining editor of The Washington Post does Why the best way to become a better journalist — in food or any beat — is to keep on writing Why you should consider getting a culinary degree if you want to write about food and even if you’re not interested in becoming a chef How being a food writer differs from being a food critic Why you should check out Voraciously — the Post’s new online cooking and food platform for young people Why you should order Joe’s newest cookbook: Cool Beans — due to be published in February 2020