What Edible Stands For, and Will Always Stand For

Edible Manhattan's Editor-in-Chief Brian Halwell reflects on 10 years of publishing and what the future holds.

We celebrate the people who are building the sort of food culture we want—one that’s diverse, accessible, sustainable and delicious.

These days, nearly everyone in the media business is questioning their identity. Breakneck technological change; round-the-clock readership cycles; automated advertising platforms.

Since we printed our first story a decade ago, food has gone from sidebar to front page. Every newspaper, magazine and podcast has multiplied its coverage of comestibles, cooks and costermongers. Even better, many of the ideas that Edible was founded to champion — eat local, read labels, know your farmer, vote with your fork — and that were once considered radical and revolutionary are now almost mainstream.

So, what’s a company like Edible to do? Have we worked ourselves out of a job by inspiring everyone to take food more seriously?

<Read the rest of the story and the answers to these very questions at edible Manhattan>