Your hosts Mark Lin­sen­may­er, Eri­ca Spyres, and Bri­an Hirt are joined by Utah phi­los­o­phy prof and for­mer food writer C. Thi Nguyen to talk food as art, food­ies, elit­ism, food TV, cook­ing vs. eat­ing, and how ana­lyz­ing food is like ana­lyz­ing games.

Read Thi’s work at objectionable.net, includ­ing the arti­cle on “out­rage porn” we talk about that he co-wrote with Bek­ka Williams, and his gen­er­al account of “the arts of action.” Also, check out his blog posts about cook­books and his new book. Pur­chase Games: Agency As Art. Fol­low Thi @add_hawk.

Oth­er sources we looked at include:

• “Wel­come to Peak Food TV: Inside Hol­ly­wood’s Grow­ing Hunger for Culi­nary Shows” by Michael O’Con­nell
• “Why Peo­ple Loved Bour­dain” by Jaron Gilin­sky
• “What Was the Food­ie?” by Josephine Liv­ing­stone
• The 2014 doc­u­men­tary film Food­ies: The Culi­nary Jet Set
• “What Are the Best Food Pod­casts Right Now?” by Maryse Chevriere

Learn more at prettymuchpop.com. This episode includes bonus dis­cus­sion that you can only hear by sup­port­ing the pod­cast at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. This pod­cast is part of the Par­tial­ly Exam­ined Life pod­cast net­work.

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