“I want young adults to understand all the implications of food and eating,” Melanie Chambers told Ontario Farmer in a recent interview.

An experienced writer and longtime lecturer, Chambers was referring to the students who take her food writing course at Western University.

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She created the second-year class in 2015 after spending years cycling around the world as a travel writer, blogger and photographer.

“Inevitably, as you’re travelling, you write about food,” she said before going on to explain why food is a fascinating topic to commit to the page.

According to Chambers, food covers a myriad of writing genres.

From political to memoir to emotional writing, the subject of food is one that writers cover often and one that acts as a convergence between genres.

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