Food Memory Journal: Document Flavors and Recipes
Organising Your Idea: The Layout and Rough Designs
A course by Sumayya Usmani , Creative Writer and Food Educator
About the video: Organising Your Idea: The Layout and Rough Designs
Overview
“Now that you have the idea for the course project, I will explain how you can write a rough structure of the journal entries on a piece of paper to bring the story together. ”
In this video lesson Sumayya Usmani addresses the topic: Organising Your Idea: The Layout and Rough Designs, which is part of the Domestika online course: 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.
Partial transcription of the video
“Organising Your Idea: The Layout and Rough Designs Now that I have a general idea of what's going to be in my journal entry, in this lesson, I'm going to explore a little deeper exactly how I'm going to structure the story, using some exercises, using my senses to explore the memory. The main idea for my journal entry is the theme of my life in the kitchen growing up with my family and all the flavours I grew up with. Now you'll see on the table, I have some elements and ingredients that will help me taste this memory. One of the stories I want to write about is cooking in the kitchen with ...”
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Course summary for: Food Memory Journal: Document Flavors and Recipes
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Category
Culinary, Writing -
Areas
Creative Writing, Non-Fiction Writing, Sketchbook
Sumayya Usmani
A course by Sumayya Usmani
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, award-winning creative writer and food educator, Sumayya Usmani, spent her early childhood travelling the world with her parents. She explored various cultures, countries, ingredients, and cuisines and watched in wonder as her mother lovingly prepared meals. Later, when the family settled back in Karachi, Sumayya observed grandmothers and aunts cooking with ‘andaza’ - an Urdu word for using instinct and estimation. These experiences created Sumayya’s strong foundations and connections to cooking and in her adulthood she found she could cook by simply following her own intuition and senses.
Sumayya went on to practice law for 12 years in London and Pakistan. However, in 2012 she quit law in pursuit of her passion; food writing and teaching. Now based in Glasgow, her life-long love for writing, along with her natural flair, has led her to publish award-winning cookbooks. Her latest book is a food memoir, and ventures further into creative writing, which has won the Scottish Book Trust’s Next Chapter Award in 2021. Sumayya regularly appears at multiple book festivals such as the Edinburgh Book Festival, she has written for and appeared in numerous publications including in The New York Times, The Guardian, and on BBC Food, amongst others. She’s a guest speaker on many podcasts and a regular on BBC Radio. Sumayya also hosts cooking classes, and is a committee member of the Guild of Food Writers.
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