Food Writing and Farm Workers: What is the Connection?

November 1, 2011

How often do you think about farm workers when you choose your food, cook it, or write about food? Yeah, I thought so. Me too. Last week I went to a talk about agriculture and social justice by writer Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation; Greg Asbed, co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers [...]

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Blogger Quits Day Job, Creates Successful Online Business

October 25, 2011

Do you dream of making enough money from food writing online to quit your day job? Do you want more income as a self-employed writer and educator? Jennifer McGruther started down a path to lucrative self-employment in 2006, when she switched to a traditional foods diet. She defines this style of eating as “the foods [...]

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Steve Jobs and the Internal Editor

October 18, 2011

I’m still mourning the death of Steve Jobs, a brilliant man who changed my life with beautifully-designed, practical products. But I’ve also been reading about the type of boss he was: bullying. Just like my own critical voice. In the late 1980′s, I was working on a cover story for the NeXT machine, one of Job’s rare [...]

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Like to Write Trend Stories? Pitch AP’s Hirsch

October 11, 2011

Many publications and media companies subscribe to the Associated Press (AP), which sends them food stories. AP produces stories that appear in thousands of newspapers and the websites of television stations, new media companies, and radio stations. J.M. (Jason) Hirsch is the company’s food editor. And the good news is that he assigns food stories regularly [...]

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9 Questions For When a Book Publisher Calls

October 4, 2011

In the last few weeks, I’ve heard from lots of food bloggers who are getting calls from publishers, asking them to write books. It’s thrilling to get one of these calls, but they didn’t necessarily know what questions to ask the publisher. And of course, there’s no reason why they should know, since they have [...]

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Melissa Clark Works Her Tail Off, and Says You Should Too

September 27, 2011

If you looked up the opposite of “slacker,” you’d see Melissa Clark‘s name highlighted in bold. The prolific freelancer writes weekly recipes for the New York Times and Gilt Taste, among other freelance gigs. She has also written 32 cookbooks. Many are collaborations with chefs including Daniel Boulud, David Bouley, and White House Pastry Chef Bill [...]

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