Dianne Jacob

Dianne Jacob is the author of Will Write for Food, a multiple award-winning book about food writing. Since 1996 Dianne has been an author, writing coach, freelance editor and writer, teacher and speaker. She has led workshops around the world, including in London, Ireland, Australia, and Dubai. She has been a popular speaker at many conferences.

The first edition of Will Write for Food, won the 2005 international Cordon D'Or Award for Literary Culinary Reference. Her second edition in 2010 won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in its category. The third won a Silver Nautilus 2015 award in the Creative Process category. Her fourth edition also won a Silver Nautilous in 2021. Her book has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Spanish.

She has also co-authored two cookbooks with chef Craig Priebe: The United States of Pizza (2015) and Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas (2008).

Dianne was born in Vancouver, Canada, the first-generation daughter of Iraqi Jews from Shanghai. Her dad, an amateur poet and songwriter, gave her writing assignments from a tender age. One of her first poems was about a frog with gastro-intestinal distress.

Dianne graduated from journalism school and became a newspaper reporter and editor. She later moved to the US and worked on two international magazines, a city magazine and an electronic book publisher as a top editor. One of her first jobs was the editor of a restaurant magazine. She continued writing restaurant reviews on the side, and later wrote for the Washington Post, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, and other publications. Read her multiple award-winning essay about her parents, The Meaning of Mangoes, at https://web.archive.org/web/20170702004942/http://luckypeach.com/the-meaning-of-mangoes/.

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