The Association of Food Journalists is getting ready to hold its annual meeting in Houston on October 15-18. They’ll be overlapping a day with the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors. Anyone know how many journalist associations there are?

The Association of Food Journalists, Inc., is a networking system especially created for journalists who devote most of their working time to planning and writing food copy for news media worldwide.

AFJ’s primary goal is to encourage communication among food journalists. In addition, AFJ tries to increase members’ knowledge of food and to sharpen their writing, design and broadcast skills. The group also strives to foster professional standards among its members and other members of the media.

They’ve got a blog with the most overused name in the world, “Association of Food Journalists’ Food For Thought.” The blog hasn’t been getting fed much lately though since the most recent post is dated, May 14.