Food Bloggers Make a Pie for Mikey

August 15, 2011

A beautiful moment occured Friday in the food blogosphere. For an afternoon, all the anxiety and competition about being part of an online food writing community faded away, and people came together in support of food blogger Jennifer Perillo of In Jennie’s Kitchen, who lost her husband suddenly to a heart attack. It started in a touching post [...]

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Pile of Food Blogger Cookbooks in the Works

August 9, 2011

“So many food bloggers have books coming out right now!” declared Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy. She, Cheryl Sternman-Rule of 5 Second Rule (on the list below), and I were gabbing on the phone, preparing for our food blogging panel at the Book Passage Travel and Food Writing and Photography conference this weekend. I had not counted how many, [...]

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Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on What She Learned by Writing a Cookbook

August 2, 2011

Deb Perelman turns in the manuscript for her first cookbook, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, at the end of this month. I caught up with her to ask her how writing a cookbook has been different than writing her blog. You can meet Perelman at the International Food Blogger Conference in New Orleans August 26-28. She, [...]

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Watch Out for Ongoing Bitter Taste from Pine Nuts

July 26, 2011

How much do you count on your taste buds, as a food writer? Do you use them every day, as a recipe tester, cook, restaurant reviewer, or just because you love to eat? Then beware of pine nuts. They can ruin your tastebuds for weeks. Actually, they can poison you. Last Thursday I ate pine [...]

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Blogger Stalks and Copies Another Food Blogger

July 19, 2011

What do you do when another blogger copies your recipes, ideas, and even gets the same freelance gig? That’s the situation food blogger Jennifer Strohmeyer of Virtually Vegan Mama found herself in recently, when another blogger took Strohmeyer’s recipe ideas for her own blog, and even got the same freelancing gig at the same website where [...]

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Adding Twitter Followers by the Thousands

July 11, 2011

Start-up companies always look for smart young people to join them and set the world on fire. Andie Mitchell, 26, is one of those people. A former film production assistant in Boston, she started writing a food blog called Can You Stay for Dinner? earlier this year. The blog helped her get an internship at [...]

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