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Through the recent development of digital platforms like YouTube and Netflix, food writing has evolved into a different literary form that underscores the interactions between a writer and reader-viewer as collaborators of its making process. While the traditional understanding of food writing has tended to focus more on an individual writer’s exquisite culinary knowledge and personal experiences, as seen in the cases of M. F. K. Fisher and Julia Child, recent trends in food writing seek to highlight a writer-reader’s shared knowledge of food and its social and environmental impacts on our planet and global communities. By closely reading two recent food documentaries produced by Netflix—Michael Pollan’s Cooked (2016) and Jessica Harris’s High on the Hog (2021), I suggest that food writing in the digital age could function as ecomedia, one that not only utilizes the benefits of digital platforms in disseminating environmental knowledge and ethics beyond the printed page, but also works to transform our perception of the environment and its social relationships.

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