First Course: Introduction to Food Writing
From
Fast Food Nation to
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, food has become a trendy topic. This full-day, intensive course covers many aspects of food writing, including restaurant reviews, recipes, and full-length cookbooks. Through in-class exercises, lectures, and discussion, participants become acquainted with opportunities to write about food for traditional publications and on-line media and how to approach literary agents and publishers. If possible, bring a one to two-page review of a restaurant, a cookbook, or a film in which food plays a part.
Enrollment is limited.
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Sat. June 28, San Francisco
JEANNETTE FERRARY is the author of eight books, the newest of which, Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer, is a memoir about food and the food world. She has written the memoir/biography M.F.K. Fisher and Me: A Memoir of Food and Friendship, A Good Day for Salad, and six cookbooks. She has written widely about food, nutrition, restaurants, trends, and personalities as a stringer for the New York Times, and a contributor to Bon Appetit, Travel/Holiday, Food and Wine, VIA Magazine and many others. She served as staff restaurant reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle and has worked extensively in food-related advertising and public relations. She has studied cooking with Simone Beck and Julia Child in Chateauneuf de Grasse, France. A member of IACP, the San Francisco Professional Food Society, the Culinary Historians of Northern California and Dames d’Escoffier, she has taught food writing courses at UC Berkeley Extension for more than 10 years.
- 1 meeting
- June 28: Sat., 10 am-4 pm
- San Francisco: Room 806, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $165 (EDP 014720)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer
Author: Jeannette Ferrary
Publisher: John Daniel& Company Books
Edition: paperback
Publication Year: 2004
ISBN: 9781880284780
Textbook is optional.