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13 December
The blandness of supermarket food
Going to the Ludlow Food Festival reminded me of another reason to cook. I normally just think about the savings or knowing the quality or just the fun you get from cooking but looking around at over 140 food stalls reminded me of the sheer variety of flavours a recipe can bring to the same meal.
Take a sausage roll for example, in the supermarket all you can get is a plain pork sausage roll...
27 November
Asyra Pro Food Intolerance Test – My Experience and Results
I lead a fairly healthy lifestyle by eating healthy food and competing in a lot of sports. I’ve learned a lot about which foods are good for you, which are not so good and which should be avoided, but I have never had a test to see which foods are good or bad for me as an individual. So when I saw an offer (£59 instead of £195) for an Asyra food intolerance test, I decided to give it a try.
According to their website,...
04 November
Thai Fishing Village
THESE PRAWNS WERE THE SIZE OF SMALL LOBSTERS
This was an experience of a lifetime to see how the local fisherman lived in a small village about an hour from Bangkok Thailand. With our private guide, we took a small boat out onto the ocean at low tide where the oyster beds were, as well as women using colanders to dredge for cockles in...
03 November
Why are Search Engines being slow to roll out their ‘Recipe Search’ functionality?
What is recipe search?
In January 2010, the Microsoft owned search-engine Bing, announced its recipe search feature. Just over a year later in 2011 (which is like a lifetime in the world of IT), Google announced ‘Recipe View’,...
29 October
Step 11: Meet other food bloggers
This is part of the series ‘Step-by-step guide to getting started as a food blogger’.
19 September
Russian Brunch Club – I’ve just had my first taste of Ukrainian food
I first met Katrina last year at a potluck cooking event in London. I hadn’t seen many Russian food blogs before, so she has become my de-facto Russian foodie to follow! So when I saw that she was hosting a Russian brunch club event, I signed up without...
19 September
A review of the Ludlow Food Festival 2011 – Britain’s longest running food festival
A couple of weeks ago my brother Kevin and I decided to head over to Ludlow for the Ludlow Food Festival. Started in 1995, it is Britain’s longest consecutively running food festival and as we hadn’t been before and it coincided with my birthday weekend, we thought it was worth a visit.
We went on the Friday (the opening day). Access to it was easy as we used the recommended...
03 August
Step 10: Site design (content is king, design is queen)
This is part of the series ‘Step-by-step guide to getting started as a food blogger’.
25 July
Step 9: Branding – start with a logo
This is part of the series ‘Step-by-step guide to getting started as a food blogger’.
13 July
Step 8: Get people to follow your obsession with food
This is part of the series ‘Step-by-step guide to getting started as a food blogger’.