Interviews, Videos and Podcasts

• An interview with the Christian Science Monitor about my book, Will Write for Food.


• Video chat, How to Be a Better Food Blogger, with me, David Leite of Leite's Culinaria, and Holly Hughes of Best Food Writing.
  
  
• Here's an interview on LitRave about how I got started as a food writer, and about trends in food writing.
  
  
• My Q&A with Paris-based food writer David Lebovitz on davidlebovitz.com
  
  

• How to Create a Killer Food Blog -- watch this 20-minute video of my Wordpress Camp presentation.
  
  
• A podcast on food writing with Edible Radio.
  
  

What Students Say I cannot speak more highly of the class. I found your book and teaching style to be informative and engaging. I learned more than I could imagine from the other students. The format of your classes was perfect.Starting with a review of the writing assignments and then moving onto the new content was just right. You have had a profound impact on my awareness of food writing and appreciation of the skill set needed to succeed in this specialized writing arena.You are an outstanding teacher. I recommend your class to all interested in the world of food writing. -Sasha Mardikian, Berkeley, CA I love it when food bloggers write posts about my classes, because you get photos of the people attending, and often the food! See this post about teaching an all-day private class in San Diego; this post on a food writing class I taught at Food Blogger Camp in Ixtapa, Mexico; this post on a class I taught in Seattle; and this one on a blogging class in San Francisco. Thanks again for the wonderfully inspiring class. It is always a thrill to meet the author of a book that I open again and again. - Anna Mindess, Berkeley, CA "I took a class on food writing from Dianne and found her to be an inspiring and down-to-earth teacher. She made me believe that a career in food writing was more than a dream, that it could be a reality, as long as I broke it down into small steps. Her segment on writing a book proposal was especially enlightening to me. Despite having worked in journalism and public relations in the past, I would not have known how to "get it right" without her class. I know from after class discussions with other participants that it was especially helpful to them as well. Her class was a life-defining experience for me. I plan on taking future seminars from her and would not hesitate to recommend others interested in food writing do the same." -Faith Kramer, Oakland, CA, who started Blog Appetit shortly afterwards "As far the Smithsonian class is concerned, it was one of the best, if not the best class I've ever taken on creative writing. Your in-class exercises were inspirational and idea generating. I especially loved your analysis of metaphors and memory in food writing which made the whole process come alive with possibilities. I read your handouts which were perfect examples of original and diverse writing and made me look at writing in a new way. I was also very entertained by your guest speakers and found your questions to be exactly the kinds of things I would have liked to have asked myself. As I said, I'd take the class again tomorrow if I could. If you give it again, please reserve a place for me! I'm half way through your book and feel both prepared and inspired to write but daunted by the hard work it takes. Thanks again for teaching me something.” -Angela Schaffner, Washington, DC