Slurping steamy spiced noodles from a bowl while heavy monsoon rains drip outside…
Relishing a fold of butter-soaked crispy-flaked
potato parantha on a wintery Sunday morning
Sipping a glass of iced rose sherbet to relieve
summer afternoon’s burning heat
Chewing onto a herby, cheese-dipped pepper-flavoured
pizza crust on a movie night
Munching from a box of crunchy chips along with
your best buddy
Relishing a raw juicy salad of freshly cut
fruits & veggies
Scooping a spoonful of nutty chocolate-dipped fudge
bar melting on your tongue….
There is certainly a certain kind of pleasure
in food; that can never be underestimated.
This feeling of pleasure causes the topic of ‘food
writing’ one of the most evocative forms of writing.
In fact, writing about food is as exciting as
the food itself!
In this video, I am presenting the top-secret
ingredients that make a piece of food writing as delicious as the food you’re
writing about!
So, let’s breeze through these!
#1 ADD FOOD-RELATED SENSORY DETAILING
What does this food item or dish appeal to your
five senses?
How does this cooking process appear to you?
How’d you describe the first overall impression
that you got after seeing that dish in a palette or that process of cooking
going on in the kitchen?
What is the overall visual appearance? – Write
about it..
The shape(s), colour(s) and consistency…
What are the textures involved?
Write about the smells and aromas involved.
#2 WRITE ABOUT FLAVOURS & TASTES
How does the food feel like as soon as it
enters your mouth and you start chewing or swallowing or sipping it bit by bit?
What is the dominant taste? – Is it spicy or is
it sweet? – Bitter? Astringent? Sour? Salty? – Write about it.
What are the flavours involved?
What according to you will be the best
companions with this food for adding to its taste? – Write about the best
toppings, side-dishes and garnishes related to it.
Describe the flavours involved in your own
words while offering the specific and precise details.
#3 WRITE ABOUT INGREDIENTS & RECIPE(S)
Write about the category of its cuisine, its
main city and the culture surrounding it – its history & inventor etc.
Write about ingredients involved in it, if any
Write about its various recipes & recipes
related to it
Are you a chef or do you know one personally
(that includes your mother!)? Well, then you can interview them to share with
you their secret sauce ingredients & mention these in your content.
#4 INCLUDE EDIBILITY DETAILS
Write about the nutritional content, if
possible and/or required in your content piece.
In which meal of the day this dish is usually
eaten and how?
What is the correct temperature and
instrument(s) of eating pertaining to this food, dish or eatable?
#5 SPRINKLE TOUCHES OF EMOTIONAL FLAVOUR BY ADDING YOUR PERSONAL ELEMENT RELATED TO THE FOOD(S) YOU’RE WRITING ABOUT!
Write about your own experiences & memories
related to the food (dish/product/cuisine)
Do you like these kinds of foods or do you
dislike them?
What do you feel, think and imagine about the
foods or recipes or cuisines that you’re writing about?
#6 MENTION RELATED RESTAURANTS OR PRODUCTS
Is this dish served in a café, or is it a
specialty of a street food stall?
Got a knack for writing food product reviews?
Collaborate with food bloggers, and include the restaurants or top eateries
related to that food/cuisine/dish!
#7 EMBELLISH YOUR WRITING WITH FOOD-RELATED QUOTES, PHRASES, IDIOMS & ANECDOTES!
There are tons of idioms, phrases, quotes,
proverbs & anecdotes you’ll discover, related to all things food. Utilize
them to embellish your content.
Got some wonderful snippets or clippings in
your writer’s swipe file? Well, bring them into use by repurposing and quoting
in your content piece!
Remember the goal is to create a springboard of sensory food narrative in order to salivate the tastebuds in the imagination of the reader!
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