“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are,” may be one of the most over-used quotes from Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Eating is the most fundamental human experience, one we all share, and which we can all connect with. This makes the discussion of what we eat a rich entry point into the human experience. In the most literal interpretation, a cookbook is an invitation to your reader to not only enter a new world, whether that is your childhood kitchen or a culture a world away, as well as a call to action to physically experience a taste of that place and time. In journalism, an examination of food is an entry point to stories of history, place and the human experience, whether that is the story of the paladares restaurants that opened in private homes in Cuba under Fidel Castro, or the story of the decades-old, family-run neighborhood restaurant that serves as a community gathering place in a small country town. In fiction, what our characters eat is one of the quickest ways to show our reader what kind of person they are. Does your protagonist come home and eat a kale salad or cold fried chicken at the end of a long day? Does she order a steak on a first date? Does he cook pigeon peas and rice or does he order all his meals from the mediocre Chinese restaurant down the street? In this workshop, we will discuss ways of storytelling through the use of food in literal and literary ways. Please bring either a draft, an outline, or notes on your writing project so we can discuss its development, or ways of enriching it through food writing during the workshop. Bring a pen and notebook or laptop. With Felicia Campbell.