Food Writing Workshop

Course Date: 6 & 7 May 2017

Course Location: Level 2, 52 Cuba street, Te Aro, Wellington

Course Length: 16 hours (one weekend), plus emailed feedback on written work.

Course Includes: Restaurant outing on the Saturday of the course, LCB Bag, LCB Course book, Handouts available at both classes, Certificate of Participation upon completion

Course Details:

Let Dominion Post restaurant critic, Cuisine writer and author David Burton introduce you to the craft of food writing on an intensive weekend course. Explore a different facet of culinary arts through writing. Join David on a journey of discovery to learn new skills in the art of writing about food from many aspects – whether you want to transform your food blog from a series of photo captions into proper journalistic features, compile your own cookbook, write food and travel features or review restaurants like a professional, come and join us. The Saturday session ends with dinner at a local restaurant where participants have a chance to practice their reviewing skills in a convivial atmosphere with other course participants. After the course, David will provide feedback via email on all written material.

The course covers the following:

• The craft of recipe writing
• Transforming food blogs into features
• Food & travel features
• Recipe books and food memoirs
• Restaurant reviews

David's Biography can be found on our Lecturer page.