Posts Tagged ‘A Mighty Appetite’
Food Blogger Kim O’Donnel Is Leaving WaPo for True/Slant
In March, the Washington Post pulled the plug on Kim O’Donnel’s long-time chat, What’s Cooking. Today, O’Donnel announced on her daily Post food blog that she herself is pulling the plug on A Mighty Appetite, effective on Friday.
The announcement officially ends O’Donnel’s 12-year run at the Post, the last three as the Mighty Appetite blogger.
The veteran food writer, now based in Seattle, won’t be without a home for long, however. On Wednesday, July 15, O’Donnel will launch her new column/blog, “Licking Your Chops,” on the online start-up, True/Slant, an innovative media business in which “Entrepreneurial Journalists” can brand themselves and drum up advertisers to sponsor their work (for which the writers receive a cut of the revenue).
O’Donnel is interested in the branding side of True/Slant more than the self-marketing side. In fact, she doesn’t plan to sell advertisers on her work. She instead will earn a stipend, which she labels a “big pay cut.”
The branding side of the equation is important to O’Donnel as she expands her freelance empire. She’s already hosting a new cooking chat at Culinate.com, and she’s close to signing a deal to publish her debut cookbook, which she describes as a “meatless guide for meat lovers.” It’ll include 52 separate meat-free menus, one for each week, so that “Mr. and Mrs. Sausage [can] take a pass one day a week,” she tells Y&H. It’s based on O’Donnel’s Meatless Monday series, which she launched last fall.
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Gastrosexuals Are the New Metrosexuals
A couple of Y&H’s favorite foodies, Kim O’Donnel at A Mighty Appetite and Lynne Rossetto Kasper from The Splendid Table, have been harrumphing recently about the sexist connotation of “gastrosexual,” a word that practically has more definitions than “set” or “run” or “dick” (small “d” version). The definition that has these fine foodies up in arms is this one, according to Urban Dictionary, that OED of the online word:
“Gastrosexual Men who use their culinary skills to impress their friends and potential love interests.” (Don’t ask Y&H why this word is capitalized, as if it were the proper name of a department store where men could shop for all their gastrosexual needs.)
The definition they downplay, however, is the more telling one:
