Archives

Published by Tuesday, July 29, 2014 Permalink 0

The Rambling Epicure archives contain all articles and food art exhibits published before the formation of Mastering the Art of Food Writing project. You can find your way around using the dropdown menus, the search box at the top right, or the categories option in the right-hand sidebar.

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Book

Published by Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

Our first book, Mastering the Art of Food Writing, under our own imprint, The Rambling Epicure LLC, will be out as an ebook this coming spring.

Mastering The Art of Food Writing is an up-to-the-minute guide not only to writing well about food, but to finding out where you fit into the broad spectrum of food writers. If building a readership for your writing — whether or not you already have a platform — is as important to you as writing well, then you will benefit from the innovative teaching we do in these pages.

Mastering the Art of Food Writing is a book for the seriously ambitious. Watch this page for updates. And, using the form below, please write to us, meanwhile, about your own experiences in getting a food writing career off the ground.

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Food Writing Prompts

Published by Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

How to Use a Food Writing Prompt

Schedule a minute or two with a prompt, whenever you feel stuck. Whether you sense the deep need of a new idea, or you want to feel more centered by clearing space around you before you write, using a prompt is the very opposite of procrastinating.

We have gathered a selection of prompts for your pleasure and productivity – some with stories of their own, some with an implicit demand that you write the story, some for clearing your mind, others for the experience of sheer marveling. We’ll keep adding to it, too.

To build your own collection of prompts, look around you differently — right now! Are there photos, sea shells, paperweights, bottles of perfume, spiritual symbols, or even baseball cards that are special to you? Maybe you walk by them every day, and they’ve been in the same place long enough to be invisible to you unless you look for them. Gather a few of these things onto a little tray. Handle them. Sniff them. If you feel a little less bogged down now, and sense a re-set, then you have been prompted.

That’s how it works. It’s tiny, but powerful.

 

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