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Ree Drummond

Who Wrote the Bestselling Cookbooks of 2013?

June 17, 2014 by diannejacob 14 Comments

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I was on a panel last week (during the Julia Child Food and Wine Festival at Bacara in Santa Barbara, CA) where the moderator showed this slide of the bestselling cookbooks of 2013 in the US, according to Nielsen research. If you haven’t seen it yet, I think you’ll find [Read more…] about Who Wrote the Bestselling Cookbooks of 2013?

Filed Under: Cookbooks Tagged With: bestselling cookbooks, cookbook trends, Ina Garten, Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman

The Pioneer Woman and Her Intimate Voice

October 2, 2009 by diannejacob

pdubLast Saturday I was a panelist on a BlogHer Food panel about voice and identity. Audience members were particularly interested in how personal they should be in their posts. It’s a good question, figuring out what to reveal, what only to imply, and what not to say.

Or at least that’s what I thought it was about. To process my thoughts, I looked at the writing of our panel’s biggest celebrity, Ree Drummond of The Pioneer Woman Cooks. She has 13 million annual visitors, according to the Los Angeles Times.

While on our panel, Ree said she writes “like I’m talking to my sister or my best friend.” Now, I don’t know about you, but you can be pretty personal with those kinds of people. But I couldn’t find much intimate content at all when I examined her cooking blog. [Read more…] about The Pioneer Woman and Her Intimate Voice

Filed Under: Food Blogging, Writing Tagged With: BlogHer Food 09, Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman Cooks, voice, Writing

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