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Kishke, Culture, and Celebrity Chefs: A Conversation with the Food ...
Five minutes into our meeting in the kitchen of his Park Slope, Brooklyn home, food writer Arthur Schwartz offered me a bowl of still warm, homemade applesauce. “I used my grandmother's recipe," he said, describing a rather short list of ingredients (“It's just apples and a little sugar") and the antique chinoise (a conical kitchen strainer) he had used to smooth out any identifiable chunks of apple. “I like adding a little ginger to my applesauce," I said. “Yes, but then it wouldn't be my grandmother's," he answered, not missing a beat. During the course of my guided Jewish culinary tour of Brooklyn, Schwartz shared his views on everything from contemporary food culture (including aversions towards celebrity chefs like Mario Batali and Bobby Flay as well as expensive martinis – opinions I definitely share) to the state of Jewish cuisine in New York City (mostly dismal) to the trouble with contemporary food writing (according to Schwartz, many young food writers are not – excuse the pun – worth their salt).
Writing contest seeks submissions
The College of Liberal Arts is currently accepting applications for the second annual Keene Prize for Literature, the largest literary prize in the world.
Named after E. L. Keene, a 1942 University of Texas graduate, the $90,000 prize was established to aid writers who showed promise of enhancing American literature as a whole.
Last year, 124 aspiring writers applied, said Kathleen Aronson, the assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Aronson said she expects a similar interest in the contest this year. Applications were reviewed by a scholarship committee of five, including James Magnuson, residential author and director of the James A. Michener Center for Writers. Magnuson said there were many good pieces, and he believed many of the applicants had bright futures in writing.
SEO 500: An Updated View On Copy
Traditionally, the magic word count for SEO has been around 300 words. As Google gets more particular about what it picks up due to higher concentrations of MFA (made-for-AdSense) pages, that new optimal count may be 500-600 words with a long tail.
The 300-word tradition has been discussed at length over the years as the perfect blend of content and speedy readability. But the surge of the cut-and-paster, especially in an era of RSS where syndication implies permission to republish, is forcing search engine crawlers to dig deeper for quality content.
Word count, then, could be a key indicator of how in-depth an article is, a quality indicator (only in terms of information depth, not, necessarily, quality of style). To control for style quality, consult the word-stylists, Strunk and White, or, to save you some time, remember this advice from Stephen King:
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