Ten miles out of town, my guide pulls up at a little shack on a winding roadside. This is real boondocks Cambodia. Little kids are staring at me like they’ve never seen a white man before, which they probably haven’t. From “Man bites frog” I miss the days when I used to rant about the… Continue reading Maintaining the spider rage
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Making money with your food blog
Selling eggs near Russian Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia As I mentioned in “How to start a food blog“, food blogging is a terrible way to make money if you enjoy living in the First World. This year, food blogging will pay my rent but not much else. Here is how to do at least that,… Continue reading Making money with your food blog
Five links on Friday: This week in transglutaminase.
What is transglutaminase? – according to Wikipedia, they: are a family of enzymes…that catalyze the formation of a covalent bond between a free amine group (e.g., protein- or peptide-bound lysine) and the gamma-carboxamid group of protein- or peptide-bound glutamine. Bonds formed by transglutaminase exhibit high resistance to proteolytic degradation. In layman’s terms, it’s meat glue.… Continue reading Five links on Friday: This week in transglutaminase.
How to start a food blog, part 2: Design and building an audience
This post follows on from How to start a food blog. How do I design my blog? Don’t. Get someone else to do it, unless you’re lucky enough to be a web designer or are keen to use the blog to practice your web design skills. Good design counts. Firstly, all of the major blogging… Continue reading How to start a food blog, part 2: Design and building an audience
How to start a food blog
Honestly ask yourself “Why am I doing this?” I want to share recipes/restaurant recommendations/my boundless food wisdom with friends – If you want nothing more than to share your thoughts about food with people whom you already know (and you are being honest), your best bet is to get over to Blogger.com and start writing… Continue reading How to start a food blog
Great eating from the white trash of Asia
A blog’s first post starts with a manifesto, bluster, and the raw energy that comes from somebody’s conviction that they have words in them that are relevant to the rest of the world. Then the blog usually dies, so I’ll get straight to the point. In the 70s, around the time that I was born,… Continue reading Great eating from the white trash of Asia