Will write for food

Calvin Trillin has written about food for the New Yorker for decades. It may seem implausible but he doesn't describe food in anything he writes. There is a consensus among magazine editors, Beard Award-winning authors and famed bloggers that a successful food writer is nothing more than a successful writer. Ruth Reichl says the term "food writer" is pejorative, like "woman writer." She is a writer, period. Dianne Jacob, who teaches food writing, has just published her third edition of Will Write for Food” and gives us tips on how to write about food.

Music: "Summertime" by Juan Amalbert's Latin Jazz Quartet