Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food
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You like to win awards, right? Then you’ll be interested in this special blog post about the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) annual awards.
Following on the heels of the James Beard Foundation awards in offering free entry to some awards for two weeks, IACP offers [Read more…] about Enter the IACP Awards for Free until Nov. 14
It’s time to enter the James Beard Awards. And there’s good news: There will be no charge to enter for two weeks: October 15-30, 2018. First-time entrants in the journalism awards may submit work for free anytime.
This is a change to the usual entrance fees, which cost $150 per entry (or $100 if you’re a member of the foundation). The foundation announced these and other changes recently in the hopes of attracting [Read more…] about Enter the James Beard Awards for Free! Now.
I’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
Recently I wrote about a misstep when the head of an organization won the organization’s own food writing contest. If you haven’t read it, see IACP Strips Winner of Cookbook of the Year Award After Outcry.
Since then, Adam Salamone, chair of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), said IACP had no policy that excludes staff or board members from submitting to awards. He also said the board will create a new policy about ineligibility of staff and board.
That event made me wonder how [Read more…] about Who Can Enter a Food Writing Contest?
Can you tell that I still love mangoes, the subject of my essay? My local supermarket stocks succulent Atulfos, similar to the ones my dad adored. (Photo by Owen Rubin.)
You might think that writers who win awards have natural talent and dash off their stories in an afternoon. That’s the stereotype. Yes, a story I wrote called The Meaning of Mangoes won two national awards! But I didn’t dash it off, and it took me forever.
Sixteen years ago, I wrote a piece about my parents and mangoes. A start-up website published it. It happened because I sat next to a woman during an International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) conference, and told her a few stories. The next day she [Read more…] about On Writing an Award-Winning Essay
IACP awards ceremony (Photo courtesy IACP/Facebook.)
Thanks to the web, most of the nominated pieces for this years’ prestigious food writing awards are online to read. So pull up a chair and dip into 2015’s best food writing, according to judges for the James Beard Journalism Awards and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) food writing awards.
Two things about food bloggers I noticed in the awards categories:
A little birdie emailed last week to say she was upset about a change in the James Beard Foundation’s Food Blog awards, which combined two food blog awards into one this year.
To understand the shift, here are the old categories from 2015:
Individual Food Blog: Recognizes individual enterprise and excellence in a single food-or drink-related blog that is the product of one or two primary voices. An entry consists of five links that best represent the quality of the work.
Group Food Blog: Recognizes group enterprise and excellence in an episodic, real-time food-or drink-related blog [Read more…] about Is Your Food Blog Good Enough for a Beard Award?