“Largely, media coverage focuses on less representative Khmer foods like spiders, as well as being covered by journalists who have never before eaten Khmer food and have no real drive to discover more about it once they have filed their spider story. Serious food journalists don’t come here.
So whinges me, in an Asia Sentinel article by Mark Fenn. Of course, the article includes a photo of a spider seller. Cheers Mark, DAS for both scooping and calling me “beer-swilling”.
And…. the first sentence of the Guardian travel section last week,
“For someone of my generation it feels extraordinary to visit Vietnam as a tourist. We spent our youth talking about the Vietnam war, watching it on the news, reading about it in the papers, going on anti-war demos…”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/aug/19/escape.vietnam
Make it STOP…
Phil! I’m a touch sad. In my own defense, since I like to think I aspire to serious journalism, may I point you to today’s post on Choptalk:
http://www.epicurious.com/gourmet/blogs/foodeditors/2007/08/quite-simply-th.html
It was a query on Cambodian street coffee, years ago, that first piqued the Gourmet editors’ interest, so you should feel good knowing the country is not overlooked by all journalistic eyes.