Get Out Your Best Food Writing and Apply

April 10, 2013

Get tips from Holly Hughes, editor of the Best Food Writing series, on how to enter the venerable series.

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Food Bloggers Fight Firestorm of Abusive Facebook Pages

April 2, 2013

A group of food bloggers on Google+ has formed a group called PIPO, for Protect Intellectual Property Online, to inform each other of pages they’ve found that scrape recipes and photos. Susan Powers of Rawmazing wrote this guest post about the situation: “Something ugly is happening on Facebook, and as a food blogger, I am not [...]

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Is it Time for Metrics in US Recipes? A Q&A with Ten Speed’s Melissa Moore

March 26, 2013

Let’s say you want to write a cookbook, and you live in the USA. Should you write recipes that include metric measurements (liters and grams) in additional to imperial (cups and pounds)? That’s a good question, and one that’s being asked more often these days. First, let’s admit that the US is way behind in [...]

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Writing For Free Issue Goes Viral

March 19, 2013

An argument about getting paid for online work erupted recently, when a respected journalist blogged about an Atlantic Wire editor who asked to repost a long article online for free. What’s unbelievable is that just a few years ago, the Atlantic magazine offered him $21,000 per article for original reporting, and now they’re offering him [...]

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Q&A: The Amateur Gourmet on His Blogging Success

March 12, 2013

Now in his ninth year as a food blogger, Adam Roberts of the Amateur Gourmet shows no sign of slowing. A witty and charming writer, he posts several times a week on restaurant meals, cooking a new dish, hosting dinner parties, and other adventures and experiments. He’s also good at coming up with attention-grabbing posts that go [...]

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Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Nearly $100,000 to Pre-Sell Cookbooks

March 5, 2013

(Disclosure: After working on this post, I bought this cookbook. I love foraging and viewing beautiful images of plants, and these two women impressed me. If you wish to do the same, act now, as time is running out.) Herbalist Dina Falconi teaches people about plants, herbs and foraging in the wild, and has done so for about [...]

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