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What I Learned from Cook’s Illustrated about Recipe Development

A guest post by Christine Gallary I live and breathe recipe development all day long, creating them in my home kitchen for clients or working on other people’s recipes. I’m not kidding when I say that I’ve edited thousands of recipes. I owe this recipe development career of mine, which I absolutely love and adore, […]

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How Michael Twitty Wrote the James Beard Book of the Year

I’ve been trying to nail down Michael Twitty for an interview since May, when he won the James Beard Book of the Year for The Cooking Gene, as well as the award for Best Narrative Writing. And the awards are for his first book, which makes them even more impressive. Twitty’s book explores the history of his […]

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5 Tips for a National Cookbook Tour on a Budget

A guest post by Cameron Stauch While writing my first cookbook, Vegetarian Việt Nam, people kept asking about my plans for a national cookbook tour. Fellow authors would tell me that “unless you’re a big name author, your publisher will not provide any financial support.” My family and friends assumed, on the other hand, that […]

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Favorite Personal Essays and Why They’re So Good

Personal essays — ostensively about food — tug at your heart by bringing up emotions. No matter if you’re writing about Chinese food, your trip to Bolivia or your dad’s obsession with poutine, all contain deeper thoughts and meanings. This type of writing incorporates universal themes about love, loss, and other emotions that we can […]

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Book Giveaway: The Cake Therapist, a Food-based Novel

A Guest Post by Judith Fertig Writing a food-based novel was a great way to refresh my career when I’d written about food in many other ways. For me, it has been a logical as well as a re-energizing next step, long in the making. Although I still write cookbooks and freelance articles, I carve […]

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Please Write Personal Stories on Your Food Blog

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 […]

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Create Evergreen Content to Promote Your Book

A guest post by Stephanie Weaver When my book, The Migraine Relief Plan, came out, I created evergreen content to support it. That means I used the same content multiple times on several platforms. Since like you, I only have so much time, I wanted double- and triple-duty content. That’s the opposite of creating content that […]

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Yemisi Aribisala’s Fearless, Sensuous Food Memoir

When 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 […]

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Crowdsourcing Pleasures and Perils

A 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 plausible, but […]

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We Can’t Write Off Business Meals Anymore

Whenever I mention to a colleague that we can no longer write off business meals, they stop and stare at me. Then they say, “What?” like they must not have heard me right. But it’s true. All those restaurant meals you enjoy with fellow food bloggers, cookbook authors, recipe developers, chefs you know, etc. are […]

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