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The Hersch

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From the Vanilla Garlic blog:  Banned Words for Food Writers.  Don should like this, given how over-the-top it is <_< .  (I love Garrett's blog, btw.)

I agree with him about words such as good, nice, and great.  I know I use them, since I run out of descriptors, and sometimes what I actually mean is that something is good.  I often don't always have a descriptor available in my head to capture the char on something or the texture. (I do resort to the thesaurus sometimes, though.)  I'm also not a food writer.  When writing about other things, I really push to avoid words of that sort.  It comes down to (as was discussed earlier in this thread), writing about a meal or not writing about it.  Usually I forge ahead but try to keep the "goods" to a minimum.

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