Friday, October 9, 2009
News Besha Rodell takes top prize at AFJ awards
Posted by Debbie Michaud @DebsMichaud on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- CL's 2008 Food Issue
Congratulations (!) to Creative Loafing Food Editor Besha Rodell, whose 2008 Food Issue, My week on an all-Georgia diet, took home first place for Newspaper Food Feature under 250,000 circulation at the Association of Food Journalists conference in New Orleans. (We also hear that some guy named Obama was honored today too, although not for his food writing ...)
For the issue, Besha challenged herself to do that which so many preach yet so few seem to accomplish — survive on a purely local diet. She allowed herself a few basic cheats (salt, oil and yeast), but otherwise maintained a strict Georgia-grown dictum: no sugar, no pepper, not even any beer!
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