One of the few at the conference comfortable with a mic, apparently. (Photo courtesy Jonathan Pollack Photography))
I’m just back from St. Louis, MO, where I taught an all-day food writing workshop for about 70 people.
(The sold-out Food Media Forum came about after Stephanie Pollack of The Cupcake Project invited me to teach. Then it morphed into a 2-day conference. My workshop was the most elaborate I’ve done yet, with coffee to order, wine at lunch and a guy who pedaled in on an ice cream cart during the break.)
I like to start the day with writing prompts, while people are fresh (as opposed to after wine at lunch). I ran around the tables asking for volunteers to read. Some people were so nervous that they shook. Some stammered. Some hesitated. Some even tweeted about being nervous:
Robyn Wright of Robyn’s Online World was the first to read her writing out loud, and the crowd [Read more…] about When Food Writers Read Their Work
