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25 Fantastic Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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What have I been eating lately? Thanks for asking: A tender Bahn Xeo (Vietnamese Crepe) with cannonball flowers found outside the restaurant.

Hey there, do you have time to research stories and posts about what’s happening in our industry? I thought not.  But I do. And people send me terrific articles and posts too, which makes me happy. That’s why I like to make lists like these.

I’ve thrown in a few silly things just for fun. Because let’s not take ourselves too seriously, okay?

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18 Must-Read Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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Hello from Siem Reap, where I’ve just finished teaching at a food writing and photography workshop. At Mie Cafe, Cambodian chef and owner Pola Siv served us this glorious beef tartare.

My job is to make your life easier. Did you know that? One of the ways I do so is to pass on  must-read links on food writing and blogging. Now you don’t have to have FOMO because [Read more…] about 18 Must-Read Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

21 Useful and Fun Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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Winter salad with supremes of blood oranges, radicchio and capers.

Winter salad with blood oranges, radicchio and capers.

It’s time for my quarterly list of fantastic food writing links with practical insights on writing, blogging, cookbook promotion, photography, food styling, social media and other subjects of interest.

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15 Must-Read Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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15 Must-Read Links for Food Bloggers and Writers

Me and interviewer Irvin Lin of EattheLove blog at Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco, for the new release of Will Write for Food. (Photo by Owen Rubin)

Looking for good reads online? Want to drive more traffic to your blog, keep up with social media trends, cookbook trends, and food writing trends? Yeah, me too.

But who has time to find quality stuff? Fortunately, I do, and wonderful people [Read more…] about 15 Must-Read Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

Keep Up! Read These 17 Useful Links for Food Writers And Bloggers

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Peaches in April! Thanks to climate change, these appeared at my Oakland, CA farmer’s market last weekend.

Who has time to keep up with everything going on in our food writing world?

You do! Just click on the peachy links below, especially the fun ones.

This list first appeared in my last quarterly newsletter, a free compendium of links for food writers and bloggers. If you’d like to subscribe, please sign up here. If you’re already a reader, thank you! Here we go:

1. Wondering who’s selling the most cookbooks? Here are the bestselling cookbooks of 2014. As usual for the last few years, Ree [Read more…] about Keep Up! Read These 17 Useful Links for Food Writers And Bloggers

17 Useful Links for Food Bloggers and Writers

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Steak tartare, fried eggs and Vietnamese herb salad, an unusual combo but it worked beautifully for brunch.

I adore links that teach me how to be better at what I do. Sometimes people send them to me, and sometimes I discover them online. I cull through dozens to find the best information for food writers. As a result, these kinds of lists are some of my most popular posts.

This particular list came from my last quarterly newsletter. I’m collecting links now for my next newsletter on March 30. It’s free and won’t clog up your inbox because it only shows up 4 times per year. So please consider signing up.

Now, on to what’s new in our world:

  1. How to use the DMCA to prevent people from stealing your online content.
  2. To see what’s trending online in recipe searches, here are sites to visit.
  3. Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks writes about maintaining a long-term blog.
  4. How Ten Speed Press became a cookbook powerhouse.
  5. Here’s what happens on a cookbook shoot.
  6. If you write about special diets, here’s an excellent exploration into the gluten-free craze.
  7. Why is it so hard to catch your own typos?
  8. Need a media kit for your blog? Here’s a free template.
  9. If you want to become a star, start your own YouTube cooking channel.
  10. Mark Bittman changed the way he writes recipes for his newest cookbook, and says we’ve all been doing it wrong.
  11. To pitch newspaper food sections on your latest book or a story, here’s a helpful chart.
  12. Food magazine editors moved around a lot last year. Eater has a chart.
  13. If you want to write long-form journalism, Eater is interested.
  14. If you take ads on your blog, you might want to know which ad network has the biggest market share.

Just for Fun

  1. Here are classic New Yorker stories about chefs, free to read.
  2. Like Food Memoir? Here’s a long list of the best ones, according to a reviewer at Abe Books.

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17 Super-Useful Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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Vibrant tomato sauces, captured courtesy of photographer Donna Ruhlman.

Who has time to keep up with all the tips and irresistible stories on the Internet?

Now you do! I’ve saved you hours by aggregating this tomato-sauce colored list of links about food and recipe writing, successful bloggers, book promotion, and freelance [Read more…] about 17 Super-Useful Links for Food Writers and Bloggers