Technology and Food Journalism

Last Friday on 17th of April 2009,
Niki Cheong, who was the Star's Assistant Editor
for Youth Desk, came to our college
and gave a speech on "Technology & Reporting".

Since this blog is focus on food,
I have asked him two questions
regarding food journalism in relation with technology:-

Alicia: What do you think about the future of
food journalism?
Niki: It's all about the picture. The picture has to be
good to attract people. There are many blogs
on food already. Unless your picture is attractive,
people won't go for what you write.

Alicia: How do you think we can use technology
to improve food journalism?
Niki: Maybe we can invent a tool to smell the food.
It is not impossible. Hologram is created as well.

In my opinion, what I can conclude from these two answers is,
in order for food journalism to thrive,
we got to use "silver plate and golden apple" principle.
An attractive food is the substance
of food journalism just like a "golden apple".
However, we need to present it with "silver plate" as well.
Here, technology comes handy in presenting the food.
If there is a tool to help the audience to "taste"
the food using their 5 senses,
presenting the food with such tool
will surely attract a lot of people.