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Recipe Writing

Craft recipes for magazines and cookbooks with award-winning cookbook author Corinne Trang

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Recipe Writing

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WHEN Tuesdays, October 7- October 28, 6:45-9:45 pm

WHERE New York (Downtown)

PRICE
$350 ($325 for )
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Course Details

Being able to provide well written, reliable, user-friendly recipes can exponentially increase a food writer's value to a magazine or cookbook editor. In this class, an accomplished cookbook author shows you how to enliven and perfect your recipe-writing skills. Whether you are a food writer looking to increase your marketability, a chef who is looking to expand or transition into food writing, or a home cook who simply wants to collect your own or someone else's recipes for family and friends to enjoy, this class will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create tempting and usable recipes.

This class is chock full of tips, handouts, lists of resources, and in-class exercises to help you put what you learn into practice. Each student will be responsible for bringing 8 recipe ideas to class based on a theme. We will work on these recipes until they are publishable (complete with informative headnotes, an organized list of ingredients, and step-by-step instructions).

Students will leave with a clear sense of how to turn recipes into publishable, cook-able recipes so that anyone can follow them successfully.

In this class, you will learn:

  • Standard practices for recipe writing
  • Concrete steps for recipe testing
  • How to adopt house recipe styles
  • How to turn chefs' write-ups and demonstrations into publishable material
  • How to know if a recipe is really yours
  • Principles for creating menus
  • How to make your recipe prose as engaging as the rest of your story
  • Ways to build stories around recipes

By the end of this class, you will have:
Eight fully and properly written recipes.

Related Courses

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• Food Writing Boot Camp – New York (Class starts October 15)

Instructor Bio

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Corinne Trang
Corinne Trang is an award-winning cookbook author. Her first book, Authentic Vietnamese Cooking: Food from a Family Table, won numerous accolades, including Food & Wine magazine's Best of the Best Award. Her second book, Essentials of Asian Cuisine: Fundamentals and Favorite Recipes, also received much critical praise and a Best Book List 2003 mention from Publisher's Weekly. Her new release, Essentials of Asian Cuisine: Fundamentals and Favorite Recipes (Simon & Schuster, Feb. 2003), has already garnered starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Cook's Illustrated.

Corinne has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including "Martha Stewart Living." Her articles have been published in Food & Wine, Bottom Line Personal, Health, Cooking Light, and Saveur.

Testimonial


Corinne is well versed in her field and went out of her way to offer out of class assistance via emails. I believe this greatly increased the value of her course.
-Sarah Tarica

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