Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food
Useful Tips, Interviews, and Stories to Inspire Food Writers and Bloggers
I know you’re busy. Just look at all that happens online! Are we suckered into paying attention to this stuff? Yes.
So it makes it even more relevant for me to say thanks for a reading, thinking, and commenting about food writing in all its forms, here on my blog.
It’s amazing to me that you come back, again and again. I’m grateful regardless of whether you skim the content, read the whole post, or add a comment.
I’m especially grateful for when you [Read more…] about Thanks, really.
As the food director at Real Simple magazine, responsible for all recipes, Sarah Copeland has lots of opinions — and experience — about [Read more…] about Writing a High-Quality Recipe is Like a Report, says Real Simple Editor
Are you working for brands for peanuts? Those are $1 bills, yet many food bloggers take them.
I meet lots of food bloggers at conferences who are writing sponsored posts. Here are two stories of their first experiences that didn’t turn out well:
In the Q&A after my talk, a food blogger wanted to know why readers suddenly unsubscribed from her blog after she wrote sponsored posts.
She said she usually buys a years’ supply at a time from a particular nut company. Eventually she [Read more…] about Are You Making These 2 Mistakes When Writing Sponsored Posts?
Long-time blogger and Parisienne Clotilde Dusouliers of Chocolate & Zucchini started in English and added French, with surprising benefits. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Rothfeld.)
A blog in two languages wasn’t a decision veteran food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier of Chocolate & Zucchini took lightly, but she has seen rewards — and challenges — she never imagined.
Dusoulier was a young Parisienne who spent a few years in the Silicon Valley as a software engineer before returning to Paris. She launched the English version of her award-winning [Read more…] about Why Blog in Two Languages? Chocolate & Zucchini Says it’s Worth It
The folks at Food Blogger Pro wondered what top food bloggers will focus on in the coming year, so they asked.
Now you can read these food bloggers’ Number 1 priority answers in this free downloadable ebook. You’ll see that many want to focus on quality content. (Answers like that always bring out the smart ass in me, as in “Wait, you’ve been creating [Read more…] about What Will Top Food Bloggers Focus On Next Year?
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?
Yvonne Maffei of My Halal Kitchen attracts halal cooks through her Facebook page to her blog.
Do you have a niche food blog that targets certain readers, such as bakers, paleo eaters or local restaurant-goers? The challenge is how to find the right readers and fans, or how they discover you.
Halal food expert Yvonne Maffei knows who her readers are and how to attract them. She has over 1.1 million likes on Facebook. Establishing her blog, MyHalalKitchen.com, has led to brand ambassadorships and sponsorships from many companies in the halal industry.
We met when I spoke in her home town of Chicago years ago, and more recently I coached her on a cookbook proposal. Her forthcoming cookbook, My Halal Kitchen, comes out in 2016.
Yvonne has been featured in The New York Times, Cooking Light, CNN’s Eatocracy, [Read more…] about Niche Food Blogger Attracts 1 Million+ Fans on Facebook
