Writing about food

Rachel Hauck baking, cakes, Christmastime, cookies, cooking, food, Judith Jones, Julia Child, Molly Wizenberg, recipes, Suzan Colon, writing a book 7 Comments

I’m writing about a character who can’t cook, but food is central to her world. It’s challenging — not only to write a sympathetic engaging character, but one who lives in the foodie world but does not feel apart. In that way, Joy is very much like me. But how do I show it? I don’t get the foodie world. …