Questions tagged [food-writing]
Use this tag for questions within the genre of food writing. Food-related blogs and books, cookbooks, scripts for cooking videos, podcasts, or TV, food-related travel writing, restaurant reviews, blogs and websites about food, cooking, or eating. Can also be used for questions focusing on food research and description within fiction.
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Injecting creativity into a cookbook
I'm a chef. I'm also a writer. It's inevitable that I would want to write a cookbook. In fact I've probably started a dozen that I just never got around to finishing. Partly because I'm not sure how ...
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How do I publish my first articles?
I am a freelance writer through Fiverr.com, but I am looking to get better gigs being that I cannot share my work outside of the website. I want to venture out writing for an article website in ...
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Sometimes a banana is just a banana
Often reading analyses of books and films, I find that the analytics derive conclusions from the specific food or beverage that a character consumes. The food appears to always be symbolic of ...
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Is it much costlier to self-publish a 6x9 book than a 5x8 with a POD printer?
Does the amount of pages and/or the number of copies printed determine the cost just as much as trim size? I was thinking of using KDP or possibly Advanced Print & Finishing (bestbookprinting.com),...
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When blogging recipes, how can I support both readers who want the narrative/journey and ones who want the printer-friendly recipe?
Increasingly often, if you Google for a recipe your search results will be full of long, image-rich blog posts that, somewhere in there, have the actual recipe you were looking for. Many of these ...
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What challenges are there in writing a fantasy cookbook?
I ask mostly out of curiosity. Obviously, a proper cookbook would involve real ingredients and not fantasy creatures. There's such a cookbook for Skyrim and Lord of the Rings. What I am curious about ...
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Knowing when to use pictures over words
When writing about food, be it a cookbook or a food blog, as long as the media supports it, the use of pictures is going to make a difference in the quality of the work. So when I am writing about ...
