Five Reasons to Incorporate Food into Your Writing This Year

By Jessica Kehinde Ngo

Everyone has New Year’s resolutions they’re newly embracing or already breaking. If you’re like many writers, your resolution may be to write more, submit more, get published, or take your writing to the next level. With this in mind, I’d like to offer you five reasons to spice up your prose with references to food. Doing so just may help you to accomplish all of the above and even have a little–or a lot–of fun in the process.

ONE: Tap into memories.

When I sit...