29: Finding Your Voice with Tori Ritchie [re-release]

Originally aired on November 16, 2022

Kate and Molly chat with cookbook teacher, author and editor Tori Ritchie about her career trajectory and how she developed her personal writing voice after years of working on branded cookbooks. She shares insights and tips about developing a voice and the bad habits to avoid in writing before revealing a few of the writers she assigns to her students. Finally everyone shares the three words that best describe their own singular writing style.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Andrea Nguyen + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

Tori Ritchie

Instagram

Website

How to Write a Cookbook Course

Books

Vibration Cooking by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Michael Twitty

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Osso Buco by Billy Collins

I Wrote a Good Omelet by Nikki Giovanni

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of the books mentioned in the show

• Life Is What You Bake It by Vallery Lomas
• Six California Kitchens by Sally Schmitt