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What I Learned from Cook’s Illustrated about Recipe Development

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image for post on recipe developmentA guest post by Christine Gallary

I live and breathe recipe development all day long, creating them in my home kitchen for clients or working on other people’s recipes. I’m not kidding when I say that I’ve edited thousands of recipes.

I owe this recipe development career of mine, which I absolutely love and adore, to my stint at Cook’s Illustrated (CI) over 10 years ago. It was the best bootcamp experience ever on learning how to develop good, solid, replicable recipes. I started out as a naive intern who had just graduated from culinary school, but soon, recipe development became my full-time profession. [Read more…] about What I Learned from Cook’s Illustrated about Recipe Development

How Michael Twitty Wrote the James Beard Book of the Year

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image of Michael Twitty titleI’ve been trying to nail down Michael Twitty for an interview since May, when he won the James Beard Book of the Year for The Cooking Gene, as well as the award for Best Narrative Writing. And the awards are for his first book, which makes them even more impressive.

Twitty’s book explores the history of his Black ancestors through Southern food, his Jewishness, his coming out as a gay man, and more. You will find the history of race, politics and enslavement through his lens. It’s a long, complicated, funny, sad (about his slave ancestors), and [Read more…] about How Michael Twitty Wrote the James Beard Book of the Year

5 Tips for a National Cookbook Tour on a Budget

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A guest post by Cameron Stauch

While writing my first cookbook, Vegetarian Việt Nam, people kept asking about my plans for a national cookbook tour. Fellow authors would tell me that “unless you’re a big name author, your publisher will not provide any financial support.” My family and friends assumed, on the other hand, that I’d have unlimited resources at my disposal.

More than six months before my book’s release date, I learned how costly and logistically challenging a national cookbook tour can be. But through [Read more…] about 5 Tips for a National Cookbook Tour on a Budget

Book Giveaway: The Cake Therapist, a Food-based Novel

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image for giveaway of The Cake TherapistA Guest Post by Judith Fertig

Writing a food-based novel was a great way to refresh my career when I’d written about food in many other ways. For me, it has been a logical as well as a re-energizing next step, long in the making.

Although I still write cookbooks and freelance articles, I carve out time for fiction because it revives and refuels me in a way that nonfiction doesn’t. When I’m writing non-fiction, the meter is running. I pay attention to how much time I spend on [Read more…] about Book Giveaway: The Cake Therapist, a Food-based Novel

Please Write Personal Stories on Your Food Blog

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Image for personal stories post.Do you still write personal stories on your food blog? It seems like a subject of great anxiety to food bloggers these days.

When I taught a writing class earlier this year, many food bloggers said they are afraid to write personal stories now. They’ve all read the long, drawn-out posts about cats, children and confessions about depression that end with [Read more…] about Please Write Personal Stories on Your Food Blog

Create Evergreen Content to Promote Your Book

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A guest post by Stephanie Weaver

When my book, The Migraine Relief Plan, came out, I created evergreen content to support it. That means I used the same content multiple times on several platforms.

Since like you, I only have so much time, I wanted [Read more…] about Create Evergreen Content to Promote Your Book