Do you love talking about food? Do you flip to the food section of the newspaper before even reading the front page? Is a trip to the grocery store an excursion? For all you foodies, bloggers and lovers of Sacramento’s restaurants and food: The Sacramento Bee and The Sacramento Press have teamed up to bring you “Table Talk Sacramento: The region’s food community comes together for an evening of lively discussion.” There will be two panels addressing different topics, including “What Sacramentans Eat” and the quality of local food writing. Chris Macias will moderate the food writing panel. Macias has served as the Bee’s food and wine writer since 2008. The panelists include: Niesha Lofin

The Sacramento Press will be hosting a new workshop for the month of March. We are excited to have our first "Writing about Wine and Spirits" workshop, taught by Rick Kushman. The workshop will be at the Sacramento Press office from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Thursday, March 24. Kushman will discuss techniques for writing about wine and touch on how to write about spirits and beer. The primary focus of the workshop will be wine. He will also discuss terms and phrases to avoid when writing about wine or food. Kushman is an award-winning journalist and former columnist for The Sacramento Bee, where he spent two decades. For the last five years he wrote about wine, food and life in Northern California.

Food writer Becky Grunewald came to a full house at The Sacramento Press Thursday to share her tips on food writing with attendees, who got the chance to write reviews on food they sampled at the workshop and get professional feedback. Grunewald showed up to give everyone a little taste of good technique at the second food-writing workshop The Sacramento Press has given. Grunewald has been writing a food column for Midtown Monthly for four years, but it all started with her modest food blog. Now, she has her work featured in local monthlies and will have a piece in Sunset magazine next month. The workshop began with a buffet from Selland’s Market, where attendees chose snacks from an as

The Sacramento Press hosted its first-ever "Food Writing" workshop Tuesday night to teach aspiring journalists how to write about food. The event's presenter was food editor and author Elaine Corn, who currently works for Capitol Public Radio. The former news editor described her unique journey into the world of food. "(While working for the Dallas Morning News Austin American-Statesman) I developed an undying, indestructible interest in food," Corn explained, "but there was no food section in the paper." After becoming the food editor in Dallas Austin, Corn quit her job and traveled to Europe, heading to Greece and ultimately landing herself a cooking job on a yacht in Turkey. "It (was)