• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar

Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food

Useful Tips, Interviews, and Stories to Inspire Food Writers and Bloggers

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Home
  • About Me
    • Bio
    • Freelance Writing
    • Media Mentions
    • Teaching and Speaking
    • Contact Me
  • Services
    • Coaching and Editing
    • Clients
    • FAQ
    • Testimonials
  • Books
    • Will Write For Food
    • The United States of Pizza
    • Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas
    • The Good Pantry
  • Events
  • Categories
    • Awards
    • Cookbooks
    • Career
    • Contests
    • Ethics
    • Food Blogging
    • Freelancing
    • Literary Agents
    • My workshops and conferences
    • Personal Stuff
    • Photography
    • Promotion
    • Proposals
    • Radio interviews and writing
    • Recipe Writing
    • Restaurant Reviewing
    • Self Publishing
    • Social Media
    • Travel Writing
    • Uncategorized
    • Useful Links
    • Writing
    • Memoir
    • Writing Apps
  • Resources
  • My Free Newsletter
  • Blog

diannejacob

How to Support Black Lives in Food

June 23, 2020 by diannejacob 4 Comments

An image for Black lives in food.A guest post by Adrian Miller

I’ve been trying to figure out my role in being someone who can create a shared future for black lives in food. It’s a future where we have racial justice and so many other forms of justice that are needed.

I’ve always maintained that if we’re ever going to get a breakthrough on race, white people need to work this out amongst themselves. Because no matter what I say or whatever [Read more…] about How to Support Black Lives in Food

Filed Under: Career, Ethics Tagged With: Adrian Miller, Black lives in food, supporting black businesses

Developing Recipes in the Age of Coronavirus

June 9, 2020 by diannejacob 6 Comments

Starting image for post on recipe development during the coronavirus.A guest post by Faith Kramer 

Like many food writers ordered to shelter in place, I spend my days developing recipes. I’m doing so for my cooking column, which appears every other week in the j, Northern California’s Jewish Resource. 

Once the quarantine began, it was time to adapt. Overnight we became a nation, if not a world, that wanted comfort food. Taste was still paramount, but I needed recipes that were emotionally nourishing, easy to source, economical and convenient to make, and still connected to my target audience.

Here are my 5 tips for developing recipes in the age of COVID-19:

1. Watch social media to see what people cook and what resources they turn to for recipes and guidance.

Many Facebook groups, Instagram and Twitter hashtags, Pinterest boards, TikTok videos and [Read more…] about Developing Recipes in the Age of Coronavirus

Filed Under: Recipe Writing Tagged With: developing recipes, food fads, quarantine cooking, quarantine eating

What Makes an Award-Winning Cookbook?

May 26, 2020 by diannejacob 12 Comments

image for post on award-wining cookookA guest post by Sara Bir

I always tell people the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) awards are to the James Beard Awards what the Golden Globes are to the Oscars. They’re a big deal, a feather in the caps of publishers and authors who produce an award-winning cookbook.

I was a volunteer cookbook judge for the awards. The category I judged had [Read more…] about What Makes an Award-Winning Cookbook?

Filed Under: Recipe Writing Tagged With: best practices for recipe writing, cookbook judging, IACP Cookbook Awards, Sara Bir, Writing an award-winning cookbook

A New Model for a Mini Cookbook?

May 12, 2020 by diannejacob 6 Comments

image for bing bread cookbookWhat if you want to get just one really great recipe out into the world? How do you get it published? Kevin Pang figured it out. He and the owners of Parachute restaurant in Chicago published one recipe as an illustrated mini cookbook. Called The Parachute Bing Bread Book, they created it through a successful Kickstarter campaign. And Pang has plans for more mini cookbooks, with chefs.

The 32-page cookbook covers a recipe for just one menu item that has a cult following. The recipe for bing bread is 5,000 words.

Now, obviously, this bing bread is no ordinary [Read more…] about A New Model for a Mini Cookbook?

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Self Publishing Tagged With: bing bread, Kevin Pang, mini cookbooks, Parachute restaurant, self-published cookbooks

Why I’m Not Concerned About SEO

April 28, 2020 by diannejacob 26 Comments

image for post about SEOA guest post by Jean of Delightful Repast

For 10 years I posted once a week like clockwork. For year 11, I decided to post just once every two weeks. Will that hurt my SEO (Search Engine Optimization)? I don’t care. I’m too busy writing quality content—in my own unique voice without any gimmicks—punctuated with pretty food pictures. I’m not concerned about SEO.

Would I love to be a “successful” food blogger with a huge audience? Of course! But I don’t usually think about that. If I did, I’d have to be concerned about SEO: Things like posting frequency and timing, stats, email lists, paid promotions on social media platforms, which recipes are trending, and oh so much more.

My blog is a platform for self-expression, where I share the [Read more…] about Why I’m Not Concerned About SEO

Filed Under: Food Blogging Tagged With: blogging for SEO, Hobby blogger, hobby food blogger

10 Food Writing Prompts to Try

April 14, 2020 by diannejacob 4 Comments

image for post on food writing prompts.Now that you have more spare time, how about a fun writing exercise? Think of it as a break from making sourdough bread, or searching for toilet paper.

People love food writing prompts. Readers give me good feedback about my food writing exercises in each chapter of Will Write for Food. And when I give out a prompt during
[Read more…] about 10 Food Writing Prompts to Try

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: food writing, Food writing prompts, prompts for writing about food

Work from Home Wisdom for Food Writers

March 31, 2020 by diannejacob 8 Comments

image for post about working from homeA guest post by Joy Manning

If you work from home due to the coronavirus, would you like to be more productive?  Here’s help. I’ve been a work from home food writer, whether full or part-time, on staff or as a freelancer, for 10 years. If you are trying to get into the flow, here are my own best practices, routines, and mindsets that have served me well over the past decade. 

Before I get to my daily routine for the week, I set up on Sunday. I make a new list of goals and tasks for the week. Then I schedule my workouts for the week on my Google calendar. Moving my body [Read more…] about Work from Home Wisdom for Food Writers

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: productive writing, working from home, working productively

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 89
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Get Blog Posts by Email

My Books








Awards and Honors


2020


Best Essay 2016


2016 Grand Prize
MFK Fisher Award


2016


2016


2010


2007


2005

Member

Secondary Sidebar

Get my free bi-monthly newsletter on food writing by signing up here. Once you confirm you’ll get my free e-book on writing recipes.

Food Blogger Pro Ad

Categories

  • Awards (17)
  • Career (72)
  • Contests (23)
  • Cookbooks (112)
  • Ethics (58)
  • Food Blogging (226)
  • Freelancing (53)
  • Literary Agents (12)
  • My workshops and conferences (34)
  • Personal Stuff (19)
  • Photography (6)
  • Promotion (24)
  • Proposals (10)
  • Recipe Writing (67)
  • Restaurant Reviewing (22)
  • Self Publishing (17)
  • Social Media (21)
  • Travel Writing (2)
  • Useful Links (23)
  • Writing (137)
    • Memoir (15)
  • Writing Apps (3)

Archives

Most Popular Posts

  • New FTC Rules on Writing Reviews, Affiliations, and Sponsored Posts 266 comments
  • Adapting a Recipe Doesn’t Make it Yours 263 comments
  • Is Food Blogging Too Much Work? 237 comments
  • Are You Making These 3 Mistakes on Your About Page? 206 comments
  • 5 Notes to Self for Coping with Conference Anxiety 203 comments
  • Food Bloggers Fight Firestorm of Abusive Facebook Pages 200 comments
  • Should Bloggers be Praised for Recipes They Don't Write? 198 comments

Copyright © 2021 · Dianne Jacob      Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2021 · Genesis Sample Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Enter your name and email to get my newsletter... it's FREE!
Sign up now and receive my free e-book: "The 15 Biggest Errors to Avoid When Writing Recipes"
Your information will *never* be shared or sold to a 3rd party. You may unsubscribe at any time.