17: Improve your food photography skills with food blogger Anela Malik

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.

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
• Black owned restaurant resource bank (upcoming; will update with a link later)
• 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

Website: feedthemalik.com

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