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Because food writing is topic centered, it is not a genre in itself, but writing that utilizes a wide range of traditional genres, including recipes, journalism, memoir, and travelogues.

Food writing can also refer to poetry and fiction, such as Marcel Proust ’ s À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time ), with its famous passage in which the narrator recollects his childhood memories as a result of sipping tea and eating a madeleine.