Food Writers and Food Journalists are those who are involved in the presentations, teaching, promoting, and illustrating and writing about food and beverages. Food writers deal everyday with the public in various ways. Through viewing magazines and newspapers, radio and television, you see something everyday that involves the work of a food writer. Food writers can lend a hand in photography, catering, PR work, consulting.

These writers have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to food and beverage. Their food knowledge consists of regional foods, the history of food, food safety, nutrition, entertaining with food, cooking, baking, food law, vegetarian cooking, and food of all over the world. It is of these topics that a food writer can write about everyday. Food writers can be authors, chefs, food editors. They can develop recipes, products. Food writers can be researchers, lecturers, food stylists. Food writers can be chefs, restaurateurs, wine experts, nutritionists.

Dan Macey is an award-winning Bucks County based (Philadelphia suburb) journalist who specializes in the food industry and more specifically, the presentation of food. His work has appeared in Cooks Illustrated, TV Guide's Celebrity Dish, Cuisine magazine, Restaurant Business News, Gourmet Retailer and the IACP Food Forum.

He works with food writers, cookbook authors and corporate clients to research articles, put together recipes, write promotion pieces and/or fact sheets. He is naturally curious and his journalism background gives him the experience to call the right sources to get good quotes that produce good copy.