Kate Krader, senior features editor at Food & Wine, moonlights as a food writing teacher for mediabistro.com. She's written a blog post on the F&W site about the experience, detailing the many successes of her charges:

Students have gone on to write for the New York Times, author cookbooks, even, it seems, to appear Off-Broadway (I’m not sure how much credit I can take for any of it, particularly that last achievement). In the last year or so, the number of students with their own great blogs has grown exponentially.

MMM, delicious. Click here for a list of upcoming mediabistro.com food courses, and start your culinary career off right.