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Please Write Personal Stories on Your Food Blog

September 4, 2018 by diannejacob 41 Comments

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

Filed Under: Food Blogging, Writing Tagged With: David Lebovitz, Deborah Perelman, writing good blog posts, writing personal essays

Yemisi Aribisala’s Fearless, Sensuous Food Memoir

August 21, 2018 by diannejacob 9 Comments

interview with Yemisi AribisalaWhen I suggested on Instagram and Twitter that you will love Yemisi Aribisala’s book, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds, to my surprise, the author herself answered me.

“I once wrote you a long long time ago,” she said. “I tried to find the email but couldn’t. I believe I sent you Fish Soups and Love Potions after reading and being inspired by the 2010 Will Write For Food. I still have it… and it is just amazing to be chatting with you via Twitter.”

I immediately asked to interview Aribisala, because I [Read more…] about Yemisi Aribisala’s Fearless, Sensuous Food Memoir

Filed Under: Memoir Tagged With: Longthroat Memoirs, Nigerian food, writing food memoir, Yemisi Aribisala

Crowdsourcing Pleasures and Perils

August 14, 2018 by diannejacob Leave a Comment

image for crowdsourcing postA guest post by Ken Albala

When Andy Weir wrote his award-winning novel The Martian, he wanted to get all the scientific details correct, so he tried crowdsourcing. He routinely posted questions on his website. He invited critical commentary from experts, which he received. Thus the details of the plot were not only [Read more…] about Crowdsourcing Pleasures and Perils

Filed Under: Social Media, Writing Tagged With: Crowdsourcing information for a cookbook, Ken Albala, Pros and cons of crowdsourcing

An Interview With Anthony Bourdain: “Absolute Fearlessness is Essential”

June 11, 2018 by diannejacob 67 Comments

interview with Anthony Bourdain

On the ferry to Vashon Island while filming Parts Unknown in Seattle, Washington, in 2017. Photo by David Scott Holloway, courtesy of CNN.

When I heard the shocking news, I thought back to my interview with Anthony Bourdain about writing and eating.

I wanted to interview him about writing. In 2004 I was working on the first edition of Will Write for Food, my book about how to become a food [Read more…] about An Interview With Anthony Bourdain: “Absolute Fearlessness is Essential”

Filed Under: Memoir, Writing Tagged With: Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain on memoir, Anthony Bourdain on writing

Diverse Identities are Central to Food Writing, says Nik Sharma

June 5, 2018 by diannejacob 1 Comment

In his blog and in print, Nik Sharma writes about growing up in the United States and India, and what he loves to cook and bake. He also writes about his diverse identities: life as an immigrant and married gay man. He does it all with grace and [Read more…] about Diverse Identities are Central to Food Writing, says Nik Sharma

Filed Under: Ethics, Writing Tagged With: A Brown Kitchen, A Brown Table, diverse food writing, Nik Sharma

5 Ways to Know When Your Writing is Done

April 17, 2018 by diannejacob 4 Comments

Image for how to know when your writing is done.How do you know when your writing is done or your blog post is finished? You could keep going over it endlessly, rewriting and wondering if you need to do more research or explaining. Or adding more keywords and spiffing up the SEO.

But if you do so, will it be finished then? Or maybe you’re not sure what constitutes “finished” in the first place.

As an editor, I know what it’s like to pull a piece away from a writer who [Read more…] about 5 Ways to Know When Your Writing is Done

Filed Under: Food Blogging, Writing Tagged With: freelance food writing, freelance writing, making deadlines, when writing is done

Hire an Intern for Your Next Cookbook!

March 6, 2018 by diannejacob 14 Comments

A guest post by Clotilde Dusoulier

Recently I made a key decision: to hire an intern to help me with my new cookbook, Tasting Paris. It’s my fifth book in 11 years, and releases this month. I am proud to say this is the one that finally made me feel I had “turned pro,” in the words of Steven Pressfield (see his book Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work).

Hiring an intern helped me in [Read more…] about Hire an Intern for Your Next Cookbook!

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Writing Tagged With: hiring an assistant, hiring an intern for your cookbook, why to hire an intern, working on a cookbook

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