Structure: 7.00pm Welcome & opening introductions7.05pm Presentation I: food photography and styling, speaker Donal Skehan7.20pm Presentation II: recipe development / editing, by Aoife Carrigy7.30pm Join Donal Skehan, Caroline Hennessy & Imen McDonnell in a panel discussion on food blogging8.00pm Conclusion
Topics Include: Why blog? Why so popular? The rewards, the motivation, the community (including Irish Food Bloggers’ Association etc), the ease of access, the slog of keeping up but the bug of passion
How to get started – what will your blog offer? Who is your reader? etc
Technical tips – do you need to be techie minded? Any tips the panellists wish they had known in advance?
Bloggers, multi-skilled: developing recipes, cooking & styling, props, writing up recipes etc
The next step: From blog to cookbook or to professional food writing / broadcasting or to an online food service etc
Ethics of blogging: copyright, defamation / libel, should the law apply to non-professionals? Code of Practice? The lure of freebies?
This lecture is part of a lecture series ‘The Kitchen Archive’ that focuses on how recipes and culinary skills have been communicated through the centuries in Ireland.
Date: Tuesday, 20th November at 7.00pm
Location: National Library of Ireland
Panel discussion chaired by Aoife Carrigy.
Admission Free. All welcome. No booking required.
Source: The Heritage Council – From Spoon to Screen: The Whys & Hows of Food Blogging
