Comparing

November 22, 2011

You have a friend with more followers than you on Twitter. Another blogger gets more comments than you on her blog. Your friend who wrote a cookbook got nominated for an award. You read the bios of food bloggers and food writers online, and feel envy about how much media attention they get, or whom [...]

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Q&A with Veteran Cookbook Collaborator Mary Goodbody

November 15, 2011

After Mary Goodbody left Cook’s Magazine (now Cook’s Illustrated) in the 1980s, she got her first opportunity to co-write a cake decorating book for a packager. She took the job and never looked back. Since becoming self-employed in 1984, the food writer and editor has collaborated on close to 50 cookbooks. She lives in Connecticut, inherited [...]

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Who Gets Paid to Write Recipes?

November 8, 2011

In preparation for a recent recipe writing panel for the International Food Blogger Conference, I decided I wanted to know more about career recipe developers and how they work. So I spoke and emailed with professional recipe developers who work for retail food manufacturers, growers, commodity boards, and commissions such as the California Walnut Commission. My goal [...]

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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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