It’s Wednesday. And I promised to speak about food writing on Wednesdays. For me, the hardest part of being a food writer/blogger is deciding what to write about. (Note: poor grammar here.)

I often try to think alphabetically as in Give Me an A! A is for — Apple. Yet A could also be for alligators; appetites; appetizers; aphrodisiacs; almonds — you get the picture. Sometimes food writing is simply about getting started.

If you want to be a food writer, an investigative food journalist like the New York Times’s Michael Moss, a food folklorist, a blogger at HuffPost Food, you must, a-hem, write!  And you must write regularly, be it for pleasure, be it for the purpose for making a living.

So I am going to challenge you: choose one topic from the list below, and write a 500-word article, a food memory, an analysis, a poem or three researched factoids  for a specific publication — today!

• Where apples grow: the life cycle of an apple from seed to harvest
• Johnny Appleseed
• How to bake an apple pie
• Cornell University repository of apple seeds
• The science of pomology
• Candy apples nutrition information
• How to make a dried apple doll
• Dunking for apples
• Toffee apples
• Old wives apple lore
• Varieties of apples
• Apples in art
• Apples in literature
• Apples in advertising
• Symbolism of apples in religion
• Apple’s logo
• origin of the Big Apple name for New York City
• Apple of my eye
• Apple pie bed
• Apple cider
• Calvados
• Tarte tatin
• Newton’s eureka apple moment
• McDonald’s apple dippers
• Apple cider
• Apple aromatherapy
• Apple picking
• An apple a day

… What have I missed?