One of the best ways to have a rich, fulfilling, successful life? Keep a personal journal. Writing down ideas, desires, experiences, and conclusions about the people and events that touch your life every day helps…
Food Writing How-Tos
The Way to Engage Others: The Power of the Question Mark
“Use the question mark to generate reader curiosity and narrative energy”- Peter Roy Clark How easy is that? How bad could that be? How good is that? What couldn’t be better? Who wouldn’t want that?…
How to Read Food Writing Texts
Do you love to write about food? Great writers are great readers. Learning how to read helps you become a better person. You think and write better. Your perspective broadens as you learn new things…
How to Write a Thank-You Letter
Sending a note of thanks is a wonderful way to recognize someone and to let them know you care about them. Writing has become more informal over the years, and people are sending fewer hand-written…
The Secret to Compelling Storytelling: Simplicity
The Secret of Compelling Storytelling is Simplicity. Compelling stories start with great headlines that convey the one key message behind one idea. Keep it simple. According to Colin Powell, “Great leaders are almost always great…
3 Sources of Inspiration for Describing Food Color: Crayons, Eggplants, Rubies
Have you ever tried to describe a food or dish you recently had and wished you had the words for it? If you are a food blogger and writer, you have experienced creativity block (like…
5 Ways to Spark Your Creativity in Food Writing
Are you eager to develop your food writing skills but lack the time and inspiration to write? Has your source of creativity run dry? Here are 5 ways to spark your creativity in writing. With…
What does pumpkin taste like? Tips and more for describing boring foods
In writing about food, we realize that certain foods are boring and subtle in flavor, like an aimless road tripper that relies on others for direction and a plan. Take pumpkin for instance. Most think…
10 Best Practices to Learning the Language of Food
Have you tried learning another language? Then, you know it takes practice, but there are tricks and best practices to make it easier for you to succeed at learning another language. Here we take the…
How to Write Informative and Interesting Recipe Titles
An informative and interesting recipe title is the key to get your food blog post shared by your audience. How do you make your Chocolate Cake unique from everyone else’s? Here are easy tips to make…