Chefs Blast Bloggers on Restaurant Reviews

November 27, 2012

In the old days in newspapers and magazines, if a restaurant chef or owner didn’t like my review, they called my boss. The editors never passed the phone call on to me. But now that reviews are online, chefs can vent at reviewers directly, and that is not a good thing. Two bloggers who wrote less [...]

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Food Blogging in the Land Down Under

November 19, 2012

You know what I discovered about food bloggers at Eat.Drink.Blog in Australia and at my dinner talk with food bloggers in Auckland? They’re just like food bloggers here in the US and in Europe. They’re excited to Tweet

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Food Blogs vs. National Food Magazines: Guess Who’s Winning?

November 7, 2012

Recently The Daily Meal listed the 25 Top  Food Blogs of 2012, based on their own formula. I started thinking about the relationship between food magazines and food blogs, how food magazines are doing, and where readers are going in this new online world. Let’s take a look: A. National Food Magazines. Here are the annual paid circulations of US [...]

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Want a Food Writing Job? Try Restaurant Marketing

October 30, 2012

Work comes to me in the wackiest ways, and I’m grateful for all of it. Most recently, I donated a copy of Will Write for Food and an hour of consulting time to a fundraiser at Purple Asparagus in Chicago. The winner was Jasmine Huffman, marketing manager of Lettuce Entertain You (LEY), a group of 85 [...]

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Are Food Bloggers Pushovers?

October 23, 2012

While preparing for my trip to Australia for Eat.Drink.Blog next month (I know! So lucky.), I came across this article in the daily paper there. It portrays food bloggers as naive amateurs willing to flog products, people, and restaurants. A PR firm invited a handful of Australian bloggers to a demo of dried soup stock by [...]

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The E-Book You Wrote is a Spy

October 16, 2012

Hey, cause for celebration, possibly. I just found out the Kindle version of my book, Will Write for Food, is the 16,620th Most Highlighted Book of All Time on Kindle — just a few points below The Qur’An and Start a Cupcake Business Today. Is this good news? I have no idea. But it’s info I [...]

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