A short while ago Fitzroyalty thought that I might be up to the challenge of building some sort of site that churned out lists all of the unreviewed restaurants in Melbourne. I quite clearly wasn’t. I tried a few approaches and none were at all accurate. I couldn’t think of an immediate way to legally… Continue reading Food Blogger Tip: New Melbourne restaurants with no reviews
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Your Kitchen Sucks
“I’ve seen enough people not cook well. I don’t want to watch people very pleased with what they’re doing but doing everything wrong…What I found on MasterChef when I was on it, some of the basic things the contestants were trying to do – they didn’t know the basic things, such as pastry making,” she… Continue reading Your Kitchen Sucks
Food Blogger Tips: Google Recipe Search
This only applies if you write recipes online and care about how many people visit your site. Otherwise, move along. About a fortnight ago, Google released Recipe View in the US and Japan, a new way to trawl through their index for food preparation. When searching for a recipe online, most people type one or… Continue reading Food Blogger Tips: Google Recipe Search
Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator
Not sure what to name that new cafe or restaurant that you’ve lovingly crafted from rotting couches in a Melbourne laneway? Can’t find an fitting piece of pornocracy or Italian horror film to print on your disposable coffee cups? All you need to do is combine an honorific of some kind with the name of… Continue reading Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator
Three things that you don’t need to be a food blogger
1. An internet connection. Or at least, you don’t need an internet connection of your own. My first blog, Phnomenon, was almost entirely written without the internet at home. My workflow was to obsessively write and draft at home and when whatever I’d strung together approached a basic coherence, I’d walk to a local internet… Continue reading Three things that you don’t need to be a food blogger
All aboard the gravy train
There is enough beef waste in the US to fuel trains. Via The Guardian: US rail operator Amtrak may have given the term “cattle car” a whole new meaning with the first test of a biodiesel train that runs on beef byproducts. Operating on a $274,000 (£178,000) grant from the Federal Railroad Administration, the state-owned… Continue reading All aboard the gravy train
Trolling as the food writing
Terry Durack over at the Age manages to both pit Sydney against Melbourne and suburb versus suburb by attempting to pick the worst suburb for eating in each city. There is good food to be found everywhere in Australia – it may be behind closed doors or in people’s backyards rather than in restaurants or… Continue reading Trolling as the food writing
Food blogger tip: How to block the worst diet ads from Adsense on your blog.
I both earn money from AdSense and pay Google for ad space – so seeing a terrible looking ad on my blogs and getting exposure hurts. If you do visit a couple of Australian food blogs, eventually you’ll be served up with this diet ad – as Simon mentions over at his site: You might… Continue reading Food blogger tip: How to block the worst diet ads from Adsense on your blog.