Throughout 2019, Food Literacy entered my life. Last year, Ruth Reichl's Save Me the Plums topped my favorite books of the year . Through various unknown circumstances (kismit, I believe they call it), I ended up reading a number of gourmet memoirs (Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers) and even other books I loved circulated around food (Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur, With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo). During NCTE's #WhyIWrite month, a variety of people talked about food writing in the classroom and beyond. Food is at the center of what we do, and (in honest transparency here) I'm a bit of a food nut. It's not just that I like eating, it's that I care a lot about what enters my body. Maybe it's my part time work in the fitness industry, maybe it's the copious amount of food prepping I do on Sunday nights, or maybe it's all the Netflix and Hulu cooking shows I binge-watch on any given weekend