FOOD WRITING

Let’s eat. And let’s write. And let’s do both together. What more could you ask for in a writing course? Food writing is an exciting niche within the big picture of writing. It has history, panache, and contemporary twists. In this course we’ll look at food history and how that history is written and presented (Food in History by Reay Tannahill), we’ll read about the journeys that can be taken with food (Alice, let’s eat by Calvin Trillin, and Mark Twain’s Feast by Andrew Beahrs), we’ll look at our individual heritage with food (Tender to the Bone by Ruth Reichl, and Food and Faith edited and compiled by Michael Shut), we’ll look at blogs and recipes, we’ll even reference reality tv and documentaries, and through it all we’ll write and eat, and hopefully enjoy ourselves.