Gourmet, a magazine of "almost biblical status" in the food world, went under this morning after 68 years in print. My editor there, Jane Daniels Lear, brought the magazine most of its Southern writers. I met her at a Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Oxford, Mississippi. She encouraged me to write stories about subjects other food magazines wouldn't touch.
For Gourmet's Latino food issue, I wrote about taco trucks all over the country and the immigrants who run them -- hardly a s
