Yes, I would really like to be a food writer when I grow up.
Everything I write has food language in it. I once fantasized about writing a book about dating after 40 - based on what else...food! I had made up all these dating rules and each one was based on my date's food likes and dislikes. I once attempted to write about all the guys I ever dated and guess what - I didn't write about their personalities - I wrote about my judgment of them based on what foods they ate and cooked, from mild mannered Mr. Milquetoast to erotic exotic Mr. I'll-Try-Anything-Once. Even my own autobiography is full of food analogies and has a food title.
Growing up in a totally non-foodie family, it's one of life's greatest ironies that I grew up to own a gourmet food company that now pops up on page one when you Google the term "shortbread". That's hilarious!
I don't know where I'm going with all this food writing stuff right now, but I know I'm onto something as I build my platform. Tech writer and teacher turned gourmet food company owner turned guerilla marketer turned food writer with an edge = ?
Anyway, Dina Giolitto and I have created a foodie blog to in which release our pent-up food fantasies. Instead of talking incessantly about what we had for dinner, we decided to write about it.
For a blog entree, with a hearty side of laughter, and just the right dash of Memory Lane, visit our LemongrassGirls blog at (and don't forget to comment while you're there):
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