Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and More
Will Write for Food is for food lovers who want to express themselves, guiding them from their earliest creative impulses to successful article writing, restaurant reviewing, and cookbook writing. Dianne Jacob—journalist and food-writing instructor and coach—offers interviews with award-winning writers such as Jeffrey Steingarten, Calvin Trillin, Molly O’Neill, and Deborah Madison, plus well-known book and magazine editors and literary agents, give readers the tools to get started and the confidence to follow through. Comprehensive yet accessible chapters range from restaurant reviewing to cookbooks to memoirs. Focused exercises at the end of chapters stimulate creativity, help organize thought, and build practical skills. Will Write for Food is the first and ultimate ins and outs guidebook to the incredibly popular world of food writing.
Customer Review: The Editor at Your Elbow
In a profession without a road map, this book is essential. A skilled editor, Jacob’s tone is at once motivating, demanding, and kind. In her chapter on recipe testing, she brings you into famed kitchens–i.e. those of Deborah Madison, Mark Bittman, and Alice Medrich–to show that recipe developing is both hard work and loads of fun, like food writing itself.
Customer Review: A Must-have for Cookbook/Food-based book Writers!
I stumbled upon Dianne’s website while I was researching for my book proposal. I wasn’t planning to write a cookbook but since I love food and this book is so unique, I got myself a copy anyway.
