What Bestselling Novels Teach You About Writing About Food
‘Love & Saffron’ and other hits show how to make your fiction or nonfiction a more appealing meal for readers
If you are what you eat, are your fictional characters what they eat? What about the people you write about in essays or other nonfiction?
If you haven’t thought about questions like these, you may be missing delicious opportunities to bring your writing to life for readers.
Not everybody has a quirky hobby or a tumultuous love affair that can help to make a story memorable. But everybody eats.
Vivid descriptions spice up your stories
That’s why vivid descriptions of food or drinks are an easy way to spice up your stories, whether you do fiction or nonfiction and long- or short-form writing. Among the latest books to show you one of many ways to do it is Kim Fay’s bestselling novel-in-letters, Love & Saffron (Putnam’s, 2022).
A packet of saffron lies at the heart Fay’s charming story of an improbable friendship between two women separated by age and geography but linked by a shared zest for culinary adventures.
