Happy seasonal latte season!
Autumn leaves, Halloween playlists and marketing-flavoured coffees
We’re going to keep this month’s free newsletter short but sweet. Our plan for SOURCED has always been to make it an evolutionary project. These first two months have taught us a lot about our audience and mission with SOURCED.
We have branded ourselves as a ‘public research project’ that seeks to innovate change in the food and drinks industry. For us this means a combination of innovation within the hospitality sector but we also want to see food and drink media reflect that same type of innovation.
We also believe it means having a variety of voices represented on SOURCED, something we talk more about in our last newsletter issue. This month we’ll be focusing on commissioning a slate of pieces for 2021 that will cover food and drink all over the world. If you would like to pitch to us, please read our pitching guide here; do also bear in mind that our current budget means we can only commission one piece a month.
Things to watch & listen:
Catch Anna every Tuesday in October hosting the BlackBook 2020 Black History month events.You can also see her talk about food and power with Sara Salem – one of our original ‘The Ten’ interviews – and Fozia Ismail (@araweloeats) on October 15th.
Who Decides What Content is Explicit - Chloe recently joined Anita Rao of WUNC’s Embodied and The State of Things to talk about censorship in media. This is a little break from food content but also part of Chloe’s larger research into prescriptive morality and consumer culture in the US.
What we’ve published on SOURCED:
To Honour is to Steward: territorial waters of the Pacific Northwest - we were super excited to have Elizabeth Dean as our first commissioned piece of work on SOURCED. This piece explores the idea of stewardship when it comes to environment and produce; this essay is rooted in the ideginous approach to salmon in the Pacfic Northwest, a part of North America that is loosely defined by the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific ocean. Dean asks the reader to think not just about how a dish has been sourced, but how centuries of colonisation and disenfranchisement manifest in the food you eat.
The Ten - we have more The Ten coming in but till then, get familiar with those we have up on the site!
Autumn walks:
The season for long walks, come rain or shine, watching nature change daily. Anna is addicted to this particular Autumnal playlist (by Miles, one of our The Ten interviewees), and Chloe has been listening to a lot of Afrobeat and Fleetwood Mac and compiling a Halloween playlist here - send her (not Monster Mash) recommendations! Share your seasonal tunes!!!
Get in touch:
This month Chloe will be on admin duty and she’d love to hear from you through sourcedjourneys@gmail.com with your pitches, feedback, music faves, and/or thoughts on Emily in Paris.