Beyond Delicious: How to Write About Food
About this book
Whether you want to write a cookbook, include recipes on your blog, create compelling marketing content, add some intrigue to your Instagram captions, or compose mouthwatering menus, the short and snappy chapters of Beyond Delicious offer tips, tricks, examples, and techniques to make your food writing shine.This workhorse of a writing guide starts with Part I, with a look at writing basics and how to use storytelling in food writing. Part II digs into the nitty-gritty of the senses. Each chapter explores a different sense and its importance in describing food in interesting, useful, and compelling ways. Part III covers the specific concerns in different types of food writing, and includes all sorts of techniques for gathering and fine-tuning story and recipe ideas. Part IV focuses on complementary skills food writers may need, including styling and photography. The book ends with Part V, a collection of cheatsheets and lists—and yes, you’ll find synonyms for delicious.The chapters are short and to the point. Although they build on each other, each stands on its own as a mini-tutorial on its subject. Each chapter includes an exercise to help you explore and develop the skill or principle covered by that chapter. If you want to read the whole book straight through, that’s great, but also feel free to dip in and out of the chapters and exercises as is useful to you. It’s a handbook, not a novel. Think of it as a tool kit to pull out whenever you find yourself wishing you had a thesaurus for delicious.