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“Will Write For Food: Pursue Your Passion and Bring Home the Dough Writing Recipes, Cookbooks, Blogs, and More” is out this month with a fourth edition, a milestone for a book. Considered a bible of sorts in the food-writing community, the book, first published in 2005, is by Oakland-based writer and editor Dianne Jacob. It has made her an in-demand speaker and workshop teacher (like many, she has pivoted to teaching online workshops during the pandemic). Jacob has quite the Jewish backstory, with roots in the Iraqi Jewish community. Her parents and grandparents lived in Shanghai, by way of India, and Jacob was raised in Vancouver. In an award-winning essay about her family’s love of mangoes, she wrote that her immigrant parents did not fit in with other Chinese immigrants or with the Jews in Vancouver, who were all Ashkenazi. ....