Food, Memory, & Meaning Writing Workshop
What We Talk About When We Talk About Food: A Generative Writing Workshop
Unlocking Memory, Meaning, and Emotions through Food and Writing
Just one taste of the sweet, buttery French cake mingled with lime blossom tea was all it took for Proust’s childhood memories to come flooding back to him. Unlock your own madeleine moment in this two-hour guided generative class where the sensory cues of food poetry (smell, taste, and sound) are used as writing prompts to trigger remembrances of your sweet and bitter past.
Behind every bite is a story.
Behind every recipe, a memory.
What we talk about when we talk about food isn’t just dinner—it’s nostalgia, joy, longing, and love.
With the holidays already upon us, it’s the perfect time to write, reminisce, and reflect on the rituals, recipes, and culinary shenanigans that made your family gatherings unforgettable, for better or worse. Bring a friend or family member to share the experience—spots are limited.
December 11
6:30–8:30 PM PT / 9:30–11:30 PM ET
💫 Reserve Your Spot
Send $45 via Venmo → 🔗 @meesha-halm
Include your name + “Food Workshop” in the note. Be sure to also share your email so I can send you the Zoom link and an event reminder. Email me at meeshahalm@gmail.com after you pay.
Space is limited.
This workshop is a lovely little preview of the supportive writing circles starting up again in January. ✨
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Here’s how it works
In this two-hour interactive session, we will explore the involuntary phenomenon of taste/memory and learn how to retrieve it using the therapeutic power of automatic writing. I will read a poem to the group to inspire us and suggest a couple of lines from the poem to use as writing prompts. You take it from there.
We spend 10-15 minutes writing to each prompt, with the pen never leaving the page. The idea is to get a lot of words down without pausing to consider whether they’re “good enough.” We try to say yes to whatever comes up and get comfortable writing as our complicated, messy, real selves. This is how we find our authentic voice.
We’ll cover multiple writing prompts in this 2-hour meetup. You’ll leave with new writing—and maybe some inner truths you didn’t expect. Whether you turn them into an essay, share them with someone close, or simply let yourself have a good, cathartic cry, you get to decide what comes next.
If you’re interested, you will have an opportunity to read a piece you wrote at the end.