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“We got these new iPhones and I feel the power,” writes longtime Philadelphia Inquirer food critic Craig LaBan. “I’m at a table I can snap pix and write a few funny words and post it and there you are. Of course, that isn’t the end of it. We still have to go back and write the larger story, but technology has made everyday things like eating — and writing about it — so accessible to everybody. And it’s changed the game and challenged the traditional journalists to be relevant. || PLUS: Thoughts from Ruth Reichl, Jonathan Gold, and other food journalists.
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Critic: ‘You can’t underestimate how the change in technology has changed food writing’
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