According to the data: 2010. Or at least, that’s when interest in them began to plateau as a search term on Google and it’s probably a good marker of when they stopped growing as a medium in their own right and simply became part of the regular food media ecosystem where supply of food media… Continue reading When food blogs stopped being food blogs
Author: Phil Lees
Vice is Hip Generator
You know that moment when you begin to suspect that a Twitter parody account is run by an algorithm? Maybe the Vice-like Twitter account @vice_is_hip is a bot, but just in case that it wasn’t, I built a bot to replace it. I present to you @vice_is_bot, generating an article for Vice every hour, on… Continue reading Vice is Hip Generator
Cambodian rice is the best in the world
So it turns out that those people that I accused of romanticising Cambodian rice a few years ago were right. The Phka Malis variety is the best in the world. From the International Rice Research Institute: Cambodian rice variety Phka Rumduol, often called Phka Malis or Cambodia Jasmine Rice by rice millers and traders, was… Continue reading Cambodian rice is the best in the world
Google Search Trends 2013 are wrong.
Over the past few years, Google has released a set of listicle-friendly data to stuff into the maws of hungry time-poor journalists. Here’s the list of the biggest recipe searches in Australia for according to their 2013 report – those that are “Most searched – Search topics with the largest search volume”. The weird thing… Continue reading Google Search Trends 2013 are wrong.
Footscray Market – Christmas Opening Hours 2013
Welcome to Year 5 of my Christmas vigil to commemorate Footscray Market’s inability to publish their Christmas/New Year’s opening hours online. Consider my annual dose of community service done. Here are the trading hours: Monday 23 December: 7:00am-4:00pm Tuesday 24 December (Christmas eve): 7:00am-4:00pm 25-26 December: Closed Friday 27 December: 7:00am – 7:00pm Saturday 28… Continue reading Footscray Market – Christmas Opening Hours 2013
Cronuts are over
I get the feeling that food trends are collapsing in ever shortening cycles: in a mere 7 months from their invention and a few months since they became shorthand for the culinary zeitgeist of 2013, the cronut has fallen out of favour, at least, according to Google’s aggregation of searches.
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