Richard Morgan shares how he writes stories about food

Richard Morgan chats with host Lee-Sean Huang about growing up in a British Palestinian immigrant family in Washington DC, the opportunities and challenges of our current cosmopolitan food moment, recovering from COVID-19, how he approaches food writing, and more. 

Richard Morgan is the author of the memoir Born in Bedlam and a freelance writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York magazine, AFAR, The Awl, BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, CNN, Condé Nast Traveler, The Economist, ESPN The Magazine, Esquire, Fortune, GQ, Los Angeles magazine, National Geographic, NBC, NPR, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Slate, Travel + Leisure, Vice, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wired, and others. His assignments have sent him to a research station in the Arctic, wool farms in Australia, gay bars in Cuba, pizza contests in Italy, the refugee camps of Palestine, a rainforest treehouse in Peru, the foodie capital of South Korea, the oldest magic shop in Spain, foraging forests in Sweden, olive oil wrestling matches in Turkey, the Royal Family’s hatters, and Brooklyn. As much as he can, he lives in New York.

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. We share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more.

Links to things referenced in this episode:

Gather Journal: https://gatherjournal.com/

Why are we so bad at imagining the food of the future? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-are-we-so-bad-at-imagining-the-food-of-the-future/2015/04/17/deb2d296-e3ef-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

Tomato Ramen Is the Noodle Innovation We Need Now: https://www.grubstreet.com/2019/08/where-to-find-tomato-ramen-in-nyc.html

David Chang's Domino's Pizza Order: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/david-chang-stephen-colbert-favorite-dominos-pizza

Inside New York City’s Chinese restaurant crisis: https://fortune.com/longform/lunar-new-year-nyc-chinese-restaurants/

In This Dinner Series, Chinese Food Is at Home Worldwide: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/dining/chinese-food-lucas-sin-junzi-kitchen.html  

New York City’s First Cheesecake Factory Is the Slice of Suburban Bliss We’ve Been Missing: https://www.grubstreet.com/2016/10/new-york-citys-first-cheesecake-factory-is-open-in-queens.html 

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