Recording and Notes from the September Meeting + October Meeting Info
Replay | Meeting notes | October meeting date
Hello everyone!
Thank you to everyone who attended the September Mastermind for Food Writers meeting and a special thanks to Jenn Sharp for co-hosting with me!
For those of you who weren’t able to attend, you’ll find the link to the recording below as well as the meeting notes.
Two reminders
Check out the comments section on the Collaboration Network post for information on how to participate in Pie Palooza! Thank you Betty Williams for organizing this fun pie recipe sharing extravaganza.
Check out the Mastermind for Food Writers Chat to keep the conversation going. You’ll find ongoing discussions about reaching out to cookbook authors for collaborations, an amazing resource for any of you who use Pinterest, Apple-pay subscription cost, and more!
Recording from the September meeting
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As always, thank you Sarah Pilley for taking notes during today’s meeting and writing them up for us! Here are the meeting notes:
The October Mastermind for Food Writers Meeting will be on Wednesday, October 15
We will have a special guest at the October meeting: Dianne Jacob
Dianne is an author, writer, blogger, teacher, speaker, and writing coach. I read her book, Will Write For Food, years ago and it was a fantastic resource as I worked to build my recipe websites into viable businesses.
Dianne is also directly responsible for my being here on Substack. I listened to a podcast discussion with her and David Lebovitz where they shared the story of David’s urging Dianne to start a Substack newsletter. At the time, Substack was on barely in my peripheral vision. After listening to that conversation, it was front and center.
Dianne will be there to answer our questions about all things food writing, recipe writing, freelance writing, cookbook publishing, food writing trends, and best practices.
While you are welcome to ask questions on the fly, it would be helpful for some of us to submit our questions in advance so we can better organize our time. Also, PLEASE NOTE the different than normal time for the October meeting. This is to accommodate Dianne’s schedule. Apologies to those of you who will not be able to attend BUT, please submit your questions and we’ll make sure to get them answered. The meeting will be recorded.
Submit your questions as a comment on this post.
Read more about Dianne here. And, of course, sign up for her newsletter.
The 90-minute October meeting will be on the 15th, hosted on Zoom at the following time:
2pm — Seattle (Pacific)
4pm — Chicago (Central)
5pm — Atlanta (Eastern)
10pm — London (BST)
11pm — Brussels (Central European)
5am — Singapore (Singapore standard) (October 16)
7am - Sydney (October 16)
Link for the October meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0xEZHvH1QfOfv7aB-daKmQ
Please let me know if you have trouble accessing the recording or have any other questions or suggestions!
Thanks so much for this recap- I always look forward to these lovely empowering events and hate when I miss them. See you all October 15!
Hi All,
I just listened to the meeting and have a couple of thoughts.
In terms of the location element Jamie brought up. I wonder if we could put together a map, and maybe Lynn could help, since her Foodstak gathers a lot of food publications. I created a “sourdough bakery finder” many years ago, with Zeemaps, but I just checked and after 100 views you have to pay to keep the map open. I believe one of the genealogy groups on Substack has a map for their contributors, but I can’t find it right now — Lori might be able to help.
As for the community and mental health focus for October that Victoria brought up.. when I lived in England I was involved in community baking projects, and I offered classes + applying mindfulness to baking et cetera.. anyway.. I don’t know if this organization is still active, but there are some interesting “community baking” ideas on their website https://www.bakerswithoutborders.net/
Also, take a look here.. their founding members focus on “therapeutic baking / cooking” https://www.instagram.com/therapeutickitchencollective?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Again, it might give us some ideas for October.
I’d be happy to share a “basic” bread recipe, and everybody could make a loaf and share something about it .. smells, feelings, or any memory that might have arised while baking. We could all write a post about that same recipe / bake. Or everybody could cook the same thing, with their own recipe.. not sure what’s something that everyone would be able and happy to make: a plate of pasta? And again we all share our thoughts and feelings. Just an idea.
PS I’m going to create two separate threads about this in the chat, so we can talk about it more.