{"id":460574,"date":"2023-01-05T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=460574"},"modified":"2023-01-15T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T04:54:08","slug":"everyone-is-an-outsider-until-they-re-an-insider-a-theory-on-food-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/everyone-is-an-outsider-until-they-re-an-insider-a-theory-on-food-media","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is an outsider until they&#8217;re an insider: A theory on food media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author, left, and his brother Ernesto, pictured in 2002, soaked in the Mission District&#8217;s culinary ferment. (Photo provided by Daniel Hernandez) One of the most valuable things I learned in college was how to uncork a bottle of wine. But it was a lesson that happened at great expense &#8212; my utter humiliation. Sophomore year. First off-campus apartment. Found a roommate who was, refreshingly, enrolled at the local community college and not at stressed-out Cal like me. One evening in our kitchen, I admitted that I didn&#8217;t know how to use a corkscrew bottle opener. She laughed in my face &#8212; chortled with glee, more like it. &#8220;You don&#8217;t ?&#8221; How the hell should I? I was just 19. There were no courses available for this task in the UC apparatus at the time &#8212; at least that I was aware of . Chastened, I realized that nearly every time I&#8217;d been around wine it was boxed or in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of my relationship with wine is an apt metaphor for my approach to food journalism at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}