

Lived vs Research in Food media, sparked by "Trendy" Turkey
Over the past several years, two mainstream visual medium works on BBQ, Chef Vivian’s Somewhere South and previously Chef/Restauranteur David Chang’s Ugly Delicious reinforced why I do the work I do, along with the article on Fox News about America’s Most Influential BBQ Pitmasters. In each of those works, I saw how lived experiences versus research matters in food culture work, outside of restaurants matter. This matters particularly when one talks about food, history, and