Good food writing is rarely just about food; it’s about people, places, the way we live, the meat and bones of who we are. In this productive, hands-on workshop, author Molly Wizenberg focuses on the craft and art of narrative food writing, guiding participants as we explore how sensory details of food can help us unlock our most fertile memories.

Cooking, eating, sharing food—from these seemingly mundane acts of daily life, we can return through language to past versions of ourselves: experiences we thought we'd forgotten, the thing our father said, the way a lover looked at us. We study works by Nigel Slater, Laurie Colwin, M. F. K. Fisher, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Gabrielle Hamilton, evaluating the ways in which each memoirist uses food as a storytelling tool, whether a crowbar or an anchor.

We take a field trip to the amazing Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, as well as create breathing room for longer writing exercises and feedback. Finally, we pick up the narrative tools ourselves, prying open life's most ordinary and extraordinary moments to reveal the stories that only we can tell.