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IACP Strips Winner of Cookbook of the Year Award After Outcry
IACP decided not to award this book Cookbook of the Year because its co-author is the head of IACP. On Sunday night, at the IACP cookbook awards in New York, Martha Holmberg, Chief Executive Officer of...
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Who Can Enter a Food Writing Contest?
Recently I wrote about a misstep when the head of an organization won the organization’s own food writing contest. If you haven’t read it, see IACP Strips Winner of Cookbook of the Year Award After...
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The Hidden Life of Grace Young
Everyone knows Grace Young is a Chinese food writer. She’s won national awards for each of her three Chinese cookboooks. But as with most successful people, there’s much more to her than that....
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Diverse Identities are Central to Food Writing, says Nik Sharma
In his blog and in print, Nik Sharma writes about growing up in the United States and India, and what he loves to cook and bake. He also writes about his diverse identities: life as an immigrant and...
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We Can’t Write Off Business Meals Anymore
1/29/19 This post has been updated. See Yes, You Can Still Write Off Business Meals. Whenever I mention to a colleague that we can no longer write off business meals, they stop and stare at me. Then...
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Q&A: Julia Turshen on the Politics of Food and Writing
Best-selling cookbook author Julia Turshen has always volunteered in her community, including cooking for for a local version of Meals on Wheels. More recently she’s been working with her other...
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How to Support Black Lives in Food
A guest post by Adrian Miller I’ve been trying to figure out my role in being someone who can create a shared future for black lives in food. It’s a future where we have racial justice and so many...
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When the Social Media Attack Comes from Inside the House
By Deborah Reid Count your blessings if you’ve never been the target of a social media attack. I’ve been through that fire. Because sometimes I write about sexism and bros culture in the restaurant...
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How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation in Food Writing
A guest post by Nandita Godbole Recipe writers and content creators frequently struggle to understand cultural appropriation. To some, cultural appropriation challenges the old ways of doing things....
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Writing to Help Struggling Restaurants
A guest post by Anna Mindess Like many freelance writers, I lost work when the pandemic hit. My articles were cancelled or postponed. A magazine that I contributed to regularly went out of business....
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