Three Women, Five Classes, One Great Education

The fall semester has started everywhere, and it’s no different here at Leite’s Culinaria. Three of publishing’s best teachers in the fields of new media, magazines, and books have joined us and are offering five must-take classes if you’re serious about becoming a food writer or want to hone your food writing skills.

Renee Schettler, former deputy editor at Martha Stewart Living and previous food editor at Real Simple, offers three classes: How to Write the Perfect Recipe and How to Write a Winning Pitch Letter. They’re both ideal classes for students wishing to start the process of pitching articles—with or without recipes—to editors. She’s also teaching anew class titled “Turning Your Culinary Skills into Stunning Gifts” (check back soon for details). From the outside this hardly looks like a writing class, but in it you’ll learn how to write, organize, and package your recipes, food writings, and musing into gifts for friends and family for the holidays.

Shauna Ahern, aka Gluten-Free Girl, is the author of Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too as well as a second book, a cookbook titled In the Kitchen with the Chef, due out in 2010. Shauna is teaching Finding Your Voice, a class many writers struggling to find their own style of writing will find useful.

Dianne Jacob, a long-time editor and writer for both print publications and books, is the author of Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction, and More. Her most recent book is Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas, a cookbook she co-authored with Chicago chef Craig Priebe. A very popular teacher both online and in classrooms in northern California, Dianne will be sharing her knowledge in two eye-opening classes: How to Get Happily Published and How to Write a Killer Cookbook Proposal. The former will give you a great overview of the business and the latter will give your the building block to surmount the seemingly insurmountable task of getting your work bought.

The classes are already filling up, so if you’re interested, or want to give the classes as a gift, sign up soon.