Food Writing Forum, NYC, April 5-6, 2019

Food Writing Forum: Opportunities and Challenges in a Digital Age

Sat, April 6, 2019
10:00 AM – 2:15 PM EDT

The New School
63 Fifth Avenue
University Center
New York, NY 10003
Cost $125. viaEventBrite

The food writing craft is in transition from the traditional world of magazines, newspapers, and cookbooks in print, to the digital world of food blogs, digital books, websites, online restaurant reviewing, memoirs, recipes, food photography and the influence of social networks. If observers and technologists are to be believed, many more changes are soon to come. Top food writers will examine the positive and negative food writing trends in the digital age.

The keynote speaker is Dianne Jacob, author of Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Memoir, Recipes and More.

Speakers include: Ken Albala, Elissa Altman, John Carafoli, Dave Cook, Kate Cox, Laura Cronk, Cara De Silva, Mark Russ Federman, Andrew Friedman, Rozanne Gold, Hannah Goldfield, Dorie Greenspan, Ruth Gresser, Aaron Hutchinson, June Hersh, Dianne Jacob, Madhur Jaffrey, Cathy Kaufman, Bruce Kraig, Priya Krishna, Erica Marcus, Rux Martin, Anne Mendelson, Sara Moulton, Marion Nestle, Peter E. Nussbaum, Bjork Ostrom, Adam Platt, Kara Rota, Stephen Schmidt, Laura Shapiro, Andrew Smith, Tanya Steel, Chris Stang, Lauren Swann, Michael Szczerban, Jamie Tiampo, Julia Turshen, Allie Wist and many more.

Panels include * Newspaper and Magazines in the Digital Age * Whose Recipe Is It? Intellectual Property and Provenance * How to Make a Cookbook * Magazine and Newspaper Articles * Social Media and Online Media * Restaurant Criticism: The New Age * Not Your Average Food Snapshot: The Art and Craft of Good Food Photography * What Do Book Publishers Want? * Conducting Discussion Groups, Websites, and Blogs: How to Frame Your Purpose* The Dark Side of the Internet * Cultivating Diversity on Pages and Screens * How Cookbooks Are Edited and Produced in the Digital Age * and more!

April 5th - UL105 (Conference), Event Cafe (Reception)
April 6th - UL102/Starr Foundation Hall (Conference)

Delighted to report that the list of speakers and panels at the Food Writing Forum: Opportunities and Challenges in a Digital Age (April 5-6) has expanded. For more about the Forum, go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-writi ... ickets-581…

Speakers now include Ken Albala, Elissa Altman, Andy Baraghani, Scott Barton, Dave Cook, Kate Cox, Laura Cronk, Cara De Silva, Von Diaz, Sara Eagle, Suzanne Fass, Mark Russ Federman, Rebecca Federman, Sara Franklin, Andrew Friedman, Gabriella Gershenson, Rozanne Gold, Hannah Goldfield, Victoria Granof, Dorie Greenspan, Ramin Ghanesram, Ruth Gresser, Aaron Hutcherson, June Hersh, Dianne Jacob, Madhur Jaffrey, Cathy Kaufman, Eric Kim, Peter J. Kim, Bruce Kraig, Priya Krishna, Erica Marcus, Rux Martin, Rosie Nelson, Anne Mendelson, Sara Moulton, Marion Nestle, Dan Nosowitz, Peter E. Nussbaum, Bjork Ostrom, Fabio Parasecoli, Deb Perelman, Adam Platt, Hanna Raskin, Kara Rota, Joanna Sciarrino, Stephen Schmidt, Elle Simone Scott, Laura Shapiro, Andrew Smith, Chris Stang, Tanya Steel, Lauren Swann, Michael Szczerban, Jamie Tiampo, Julia Turshen, Justin Walker, Emily Weinstein, Korsha Wilson, Ariel Lauren Wilson, Allie Wist and more!

Panels include * Newspaper and Magazines in the Digital Age * Whose Recipe Is It? Intellectual Property and Provenance * How to Write a Cookbook * Magazine and Newspaper Articles * Social Media and Online Media * Restaurant Criticism: The New Age * Not Your Average Food Snapshot: The Art and Craft of Good Food Photography * What Do Book Publishers Want? * Conducting Discussion Groups, Websites, and Blogs: How to Frame Your Purpose * The Dark Side of the Internet * Cultivating Diversity on Pages and Screens * How Cookbooks Are Edited and Produced in the Digital Age * Women’s Words and Words About Women: Problems of Power, Prestige, and Appropriation in Contemporary Food Writing* and more!