Improve your food photography skills with food blogger Anela Malik | Ep. 17
Last updated on September 1st, 2023 at 11:47 pm
Anela Malik is a food blogger & food writer who focuses on food politics and telling diverse food stories. Anela chats about her work that supports Black owned restaurants and walks us through:
- How to plan your content based on your mission statement.
- The equipment and apps she uses to create food content.
- The importance of networking as a content creator and how to genuinely build relationships
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Mentioned in this episode
- How to Support Black Owned Restaurants & Food Businesses Long Term on ProFoodMaker.com
- Ben’s Chili Bowl
- DMV Black-Owned Restaurants Open During COVID-19 on FeedTheMalik.com
- How You Can Support DC Black-Owned Restaurants Now Washingtonian article
- DMV Black owned restaurant resource bank on FeedTheMalik.com
- Software that Anela uses for her social media content:
- Adobe Premier Rush
- Adobe Lightroom
- Parker Arrow Lightroom presets
- Emulsio video stabilizer iPhone app
- Instories app for iOS and Android phones
- Later visual planning and scheduling tool for Instagram. Also has a library of free resources
Food & politics reading
- Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
- The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
- “As COVID-19 Disrupts the Industrial Meat System, Independent Processors Have a Moment to Shine” on Civil Eats
- People of Color are at Greater Risk of COVID-19. Systemic Racism in the Food System Plays a Role on Civil Eats
- The D.C. Region Doesn’t Have Full-Time Food Critics of Color. Why That Matters on Washington City Paper
- The Sickness in Our Food Supply on The New York Review on Books
Connect with Anela Malik & Feed the Malik
Instagram: @feedthemalik
Twitter: feed_the_malik
Website: feedthemalik.com
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