Association of Food Journalists

Who Can Enter a Food Writing Contest?

March 13, 2018 by diannejacob 6 Comments

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.

The new winners of the IACP Cookbook of the Year and the new General category winner are announced here.

That event made me wonder how [Read more…] about Who Can Enter a Food Writing Contest?

See you in September? (Or October?)

August 19, 2014 by diannejacob 22 Comments

Like the song from my teenage years says, “See you in September,” woo woo woo, when the summer’s through…

And why are those guys singing in suits on the beach?

Now, where was I? Oh yes. I’ll be traveling next month to two conferences, and then a third in October, talking about book proposals, career reinvention, and making your food writing sharper. Here’s what’s coming up:

Association-of-Food-Journalists September 8-11, 2014
Panelist and Workshop Leader
Association of Food Journalists Annual Conference
The Peabody Hotel
Memphis, TN

For the first time, I’m attending the Association of Food Journalists (AFJ) annual conference, where I will appear on a panel September 11 called [Read more…] about See you in September? (Or October?)