Food Tales Workshop
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre and the State Library of Queensland combined their efforts to organize a free workshop in Charters Towers with Lorraine Elliott, author of the blog: “Not Quite Nigella”.
Lorraine reviews restaurants from all over the world and has a following of around 400,000 views per month to her site. Lorraine’s first novel is nearing completion. Her book will encompass a collection of her most memorable restaurant reviews and recipes.
The workshop began with an interview-style presentation followed by a “Questions and Answers” session.
Charters Towers Foodworks were asked to cater for the event and they came up with a selection of ten recipes from Lorraine’s blog site including the infamous “Broccoli Cake”. Attendees had the good fortune to taste these dishes, each one earning favourable remarks.
With full bellies, everyone attending participated in a ten-minute writing activity for which we had to write about one of our own recipes “blog-style”.
Our club secretary, Maria Caesar, was fortunate to have her writing selected and published onto the Food Tales website. If you would like to view Maria’s blog, titled “Maria’s Success”, visit foodtales.slq.qld.gov.au
The remainder of the workshop was dedicated to teaching how to set up our own blog sites. It was an entertaining, educational and delicious experience for all.
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