Professional Food Writing: A Beginners Guide – with Felicity Cloake
Saturday, April 18 2026, 2pm - 5pm, at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N19AG
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Part of our Eating, Drinking, Thinking series with Kings Place
Join Felicity Cloake for a masterclass on food writing, crafting recipes, clear writing, editing, and pitching to editors. Drawing on her Guardian column, cookbooks, and culinary travels, she shares practical tips to take your writing to the next level and reach readers.
In this masterclass Felicity Cloake will help you to explore how to take your food writing to the next level across a range of genres, covering everything from evocative description to tight, effective structure, putting together publication-ready recipes and the art of editing your own work. This skills based masterclass will also cover pitching to editors, book proposals and consider the role of social media and newsletter platforms in reaching an audience.
Felicity is best known for her weekly How to cook the perfect… column in The Guardian, starting online in 2009 and then in print, where she attempts to create the best possible version of a popular dish. She has published a series of cookbooks based on her Guardian column, including Perfect, Perfect Too, Perfect Host, and Completely Perfect. In 2019 she published her first travelogue, One More Croissant for the Road, describing her 3,500 km bicycle journey around France in search of the perfect croissant. In 2022 she published a sort of sequel, Red Sauce, Brown Sauce, in which she cycles around Great Britain sampling breakfast foods, and in 2024 she published Peach Street to Lobster Lane: Coast to Coast in Search of Real American Cuisine.
Eating, Drinking, Thinking is a series of exclusive workshops with limited availability. The price of the ticket includes a copy of Felicity’s book, Peach Street to Lobster Lane: Coast to Coast in Search of American Cuisine.
This masterclass is arranged in a cabaret-style seating format. For couples and groups who wish to sit together, please book seats at the same table number at the booking link (subject to availability).
This event will last approximately 3 hours, including an interval.