Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food

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Join Us at a New Food Memoir Workshop in France in December

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photo of hotel for food memoir workshop in France.

Students at work in the breakfast room of the Hôtel Diderot, where we will stay. Writer and blogger Jamie Schler, my co-host, owns it with her husband.

If you are a storyteller who would like to sharpen your skills at a food memoir workshop in France, come join us in December.

This time, award-winning essayist and blogger Jamie Schler and I will focus on memoir and essay writing. As it applies to food, of course.

By personal essay or memoir writing, I mean writing based on [Read more…] about Join Us at a New Food Memoir Workshop in France in December

Our Italy Food & Wine Writing Workshop

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Caio! I’m back from the Valpolicella wine region of Verona, Italy, where my co-host Demet Guzey and I hosted a sold out group of students from the U.S. and Ireland to eat, drink and write. It was our second writing workshop and we hope for more.

The grounds of our 500-year old Palladian villa. Not shown are a vineyard, carriage house, chapel, ping pong table, and pool. And Grecian statues. (Photo by Owen Rubin.)

We stayed at a gorgeous 10-bedroom Palladian villa in San Pietro in Cariano, a tiny town near Verona, about 1.5 hours’ drive from [Read more…] about Our Italy Food & Wine Writing Workshop

An Italy Food and Wine Writing Workshop in April 2018

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A salumeria tasting during the workshop. The butcher ages the cured meats in local wine and salt –that’s all. That’s me helping myself at the bottom right. Co-host Demet, who speaks Italian, smiles at our poetic cutter and server. (Photo by Owen Rubin)

Because I had such a blast at last year’s Italy food and wine writing workshop, it was easy to say “Yes!” when co-host Demet Guzey suggested we do it again.

Because of the small number of rooms in our spectacular villa in Verona, we can host only 6-7 students. That just means more attention from the instructors! Last year we [Read more…] about An Italy Food and Wine Writing Workshop in April 2018

An Italy Writing Workshop on Food and Wine

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Can you believe this place? We heard that John F. Kennedy Jr. stayed here with friends.

Ciao! I’m just back in my desk in Oakland, California,  jet-lagged but happy. I’ve been at an Italy writing workshop I conducted with my co-host, food and wine writer Demet Guzey, who lives in Verona.

Usually I add a few days of holiday afterwards, but this time my husband and I began in Venice. It was jammed with tourists rolling suitcases and taking selfies at every turn. Although Venice is beautiful, it was difficult to get around with such crowds. Plus, it seemed that every [Read more…] about An Italy Writing Workshop on Food and Wine

Three Food Writing Events Coming Up

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Hi! This is an extra blog post just to tell you about food writing events I’m excited about — particularly a writing workshop in Italy this September. Here’s what’s coming up:

1. May 10, 2017
Speaker
The 2017 Culinary Nutrition Conference
Online
Free

Hear from leading bloggers, researchers, educators, authors, nutritionists and more who will impact the way you work. Founder Meghan Telpner, nutritionist and head of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, interviews me about food writing and cookbook proposals. It ncludes a swag bag full of downloads from experts. And it’s all free. [Read more…] about Three Food Writing Events Coming Up

A September Writing Workshop in Italy

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If you dream of staying in a villa in the Italian countryside, this is where we will stay, work, eat and wander in the garden.

Do you adore Italy and Italian food? It’s hard to find a food-obsessed person who doesn’t. So now you have at least two reasons to join me September 6 to 10, 2017, for Food Writing for Food Lovers, a writing workshop in Italy.

I’m partnering with Demet Güzey, a food historian, scientist, and food writing instructor at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. A Turk living in Verona, Demet  [Read more…] about A September Writing Workshop in Italy

A France Workshop on Food Writing

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The charming breakfast room of Jamie Schler’s 15th Century Hotel Diderot, with its fireplace and beamed ceilings. That cupboard in the back is full of her home-made jams. The room was our meeting place for writing and instruction. Here the students worked on a writing assignment based on visiting the town market. (Photo by Owen Rubin)

Bonjour! I’m back at my desk, jet-lagged since returning Sunday night from from our France workshop.

After my husband and I flew to Paris (and I got about two hours’ sleep on the plane), I drove our rental Peugeot to Chinon, a cobbled village in the [Read more…] about A France Workshop on Food Writing

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