Food Memory Journal: Document Flavors and Recipes

Turn culinary experiences into unique stories by exploring creative techniques to make your own food-themed memory journal

• Introduction
• Mining Memories: Coming up with an Idea for the Journal
• Writing Journal Entries
• Starting a Journaling Routine
• Final project

"Food and writing both have the incredible ability to evoke deep feelings and powerful memories. That’s according to Sumayya Usmani, a food writer, author, and educator who tells stories about authentic living through the culinary lens. Sumayya writes for The Guardian and The Telegraph, and she won the Scottish Book Trust’s Next Chapter Award in 2021.

In this online course, Sumayya teaches you how to write food-related stories that combine the arts of creative writing, intuitive cooking, and slow living. Create a time capsule of ideas sprinkled with your own memories, and use them to make a unique flavor memory journal that engages each of your senses.

This is Sumayya’s second Domestika course. In her first, Cookbook Writing: Tell Stories Through Recipes , she shows you how to create a cookbook that combines recipes with storytelling.

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials and What We Will Do in This Course
• Creative Writing Gym: Flavour Flash Cards
• Memory Mapping
• Organising Your Idea: The Layout and Rough Designs
• How to Write about Food
• The Opening Pages
• The First Story: Memory of Spring
• The Second Story: Learning to Cook through Conversation
• The Third Story: Nani Mummy’s Rice Pudding
• Keeping Up Daily Exercises
• Writing as a Habit
• Food Memory Journal: Document Flavors and Recipes