At right you see the culinary verb "to drizzle" in action; the maple sauce recipe is here. At the bottom you see a cookie that has been piped, being "marbled." It's a pastry decorating action that swirls together two fluid ingredients; a recipe showing marbling is here.
Below is just a starter list of cooking verbs that can liven prose. For more on improving your food writing, check out:
Prose that Makes Readers Hungry for the Food
Writing Tasty Recipe Intros
Grammar Rules for Punching Up Prose
3 comments:
Very handy list-thanks!
Leave it to you to come up with a list like this! How long did it take for you to write it?
I would imagine a long while.
In one of my honors classes my teacher gave me a list of words NOT to use and it forced us to think of more interesting and also appropriate words that really refined our descriptions. I had my best English teachers in high school and I will always remember the way they made me understand the art of the language itself.
I will refer to your list in the future.
I would love to get a copy of your cookie book, but I would love to have you write something in it, if possible.
Who knows, maybe you get 1000's of people asking you this, but not one named Polly Motzko. :-)
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Hi Polly, I think the easiest thing to do would be for you to e-mail me your address. If you look at the contact tab at the top of my website, it provides my info. Then I can just send you a personalized signature to put in your copy of the book.
Thanks for your comment. Yes, indicating what words NOT to use can be helpful also.
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