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    Good Food

    Chopsticks, pretzels and avocados, emojified

    Last week, our supervising producer Abbie Fentress Swanson attended Emojicon in San Francisco, a three-day conference devoted in its entirety to emoji. The word "emoji' means "picture characters" in Japanese and is the Unicode language of 1,800 winky face, fist bump and cartoon food pics that is baked into our cell phones and computers.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Nov 11, 2016 • 1 min read

    Last week, our supervising producer Abbie Fentress Swanson attended Emojicon in San Francisco, a three-day conference devoted in its entirety to emoji. The word "emoji' means "picture characters" in Japanese and is the Unicode language of 1,800 winky face, fist bump and cartoon food pics that is baked into our cell phones and computers. Not a day goes by that we don't throw a burrito, glass of beer or fried chicken emoji into a text or Instagram post, and we know we're not alone. Find out which new foods could be coming soon to the emoji set in Abbie's report on the Good Food blog.

    Music: Lujon by Harry Mancini & "Del Ray"

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    The comfort food show
    1. 0:30Market report: Black radishes
    2. 7:31Kelis: My life on a plate
    3. 17:17Happy salads make happy people
    4. 26:38Cacao: The slow melt
    5. 43:06Chopsticks, pretzels and avocados, emojifiedYou’re reading this
    6. 51:07Jonathan Gold dines at Kettle Black
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

      Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    5 of 6
    The comfort food show
    1. 0:30Market report: Black radishes
    2. 7:31Kelis: My life on a plate
    3. 17:17Happy salads make happy people
    4. 26:38Cacao: The slow melt
    5. 43:06Chopsticks, pretzels and avocados, emojifiedYou’re reading this
    6. 51:07Jonathan Gold dines at Kettle Black
    Back to Good Food