2006 Webby Awards

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

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Epicurious.com

http://www.epicurious.com

this site looks great!

About Food Diaries

I love everything about food, not just the eating and cooking, but one of my favourite ways to relax is by reading a cookery book coming up with new ideas.

I suppose my family and friends know this too as I got three cookbooks for Xmas!

I’ve worked in hotels and restaurants when I was a teenager and early twenties, working in the kitchen as a kitchen porter, part-time chef and out front waiting on and behind the bar.

I enjoyed it but it was too much like hard work! So too me cooking is a hobby and one I can take at my own pace without anyone shouting at me.

This is my second food blog. My first was lowfatfoodstuff and concentrates on that end of the food business as most of us can do with reducing our weight sometimes in our life. Check it out there are low fat recipes and general comment on the food industry!

I suppose on this blog I want to concentrate on all food areas not just what cookery books I love but great gadgets and food products no matter what the calories. I will feature recipes and for low fat alternatives just visit lowfatfoodstuff.

If I find any great blogs or websites to do with food. I will add a link to them so even if you don’t find anything of interest here they might just help.

I hope you find if useful

Thanks

J

Worlds best restaurants

Here's a link to the top 50 restaurants in the world

http://www.theworlds50best.com/

check it out

Latest Foodie News

Veggie Dilema

I found a leaflet when I got home last night from a company selling organic meat.

I’ve put a blog entry on lowfatfoodstuff for the company because I thought it was a good idea.

I’m a big fan of organic farming and if you have to eat meat try and at least respect the animal.

If you cant afford free range stuff ok. But the difference between economy eggs and free range is pence not pounds so don’t use price as your barrier all the time.

Firstly I’m not a veggie, sometimes I wish I was, but then I smell a bacon sandwich all my good intentions go out the window. A roast would be one of my final meals.

A good friend of mine does not eat meat but out in restaurants he always eats fish.

When I questioned him about this slack behaviour, explaining fish is sea life. He replied as if he had been asked the question a few times before, probably by me when I have been drunk!

His answer was:

Look Restaurants only have one dish for veggies which they ironicly call the veggie choice.
Restaurants also believe because I am a veggie I like all vegetables but I don’t like some.
Their recipes are always the same and they try and make it look like meat.

Whats the answer then I asked

More choice and if more people tried a veggie alternative, they would produce more dishes.

Next time we go out we are going to a veggie restaurant, it will be interesting to see what happens.

Beer Belly Blog

Got a new link on the side to beerbellyblog.com

This is a great blog with lots of useful information on diet, exercise and food.

Check it out if you have a few minutes.

Food Of Your Life

Saw a new TV show with Nigel slatter where he talks to celebs about the food
that they most remember in their lives.

It got me thinking about mine and what dishes mean anything to me.

I suppose it goes back to when I was child and we always had a roast on a Sunday.

All the great combinations

Chicken and stuffing
Pork and Apple sauce
Lamb and mint sauce
Beef and Yorkshire Puddings

During the week

Fish simply cooked
hotpot with potatoes that would soak up the gravy

Desserts such as

Apple Pie and custard
Crumble and Custard
Sponge cakes

Then at college

Curries, Thai
Chinnese food

What I'm trying to get at it what have you eaten recently that you would say in years looking
back, yea that was a great dish?

It seems that we allow ourselfs to get away with eating just basic food that is not as tasty as
it should be and certainly not rememberable.

Variety is the spice of life so try something different.