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Have higher food prices affected food bloggers?

I think the question brings to the center the two types of food bloggers: the ones who cook to blog (design a recipe with the blog in mind, keep precise track so they can write it up, etc.) and those who blog to cook (I count myself here) who just cook and eat as normal, then write about it. Those that are in the second half might not even notice those changes coming about. It is in my nature to buy what is fresh and cheap, so that is what I cook with, so perhaps my ingredients are changing...but not to the point that it is a concern?

dagoose at 2:15PM on 05/07/08

From Required Eating

Pity the Food Snob

Besides, if I'm busy spending $14.99/lb on ramps at the farmers' market, doesn't that leave all the more cheap rice in the world for those lined up at their local costco?

dagoose at 3:54PM on 04/30/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: The River Cottage Cookbook

I've never so much as grown a weed before, but I was feeling very daring last week, and despite the fact that there is a townhouse in front of us that blocks all semblance of sun, I am attempting to grown, in our upstairs window: Sage, Parsley, Oregano and Thyme. I was, might I add, making pasta sauce the night that I picked out the plants. So its a little Italian themed, but hey, there will (hopefully!) be many wonderful summer dishes in my future. Also, its technically not my garden, but Rosemary grows wild everywhere here, and my absolute favorite thing to do is grab some off a branch on my way home.

dagoose at 1:59PM on 04/16/08

From Talk

Mangos

Try a thai or vietnamese salad. I don't have a specific recipe, but if you google you could find one. Red onions, cilantro, some chiles...maybe some lime?

dagoose at 6:22PM on 04/11/08

From Required Eating

People Are Still Really Obsessed With Fage

Haven't you people heard? Quark is the new fage.

dagoose at 5:39PM on 04/11/08

From Talk

Milanesa: it's what's for dinner.

After living in Uruguay, I promise you that milanesa goes with absolutely EVERYTHING. Or nothing, I suppose, depending on how you look at it. And how long you have been in Uruguay. Eating milanesa every day...

Personally my favorite is probably with just a poached egg on top, sided by a sautee of spinach.

dagoose at 3:41PM on 03/27/08

From Required Eating

Sago Palm: The Tree of Life is Full of Carbs and Fat

There was a tv show on the travel channel...Living with something (the new one is the mek, this was the previous tribe) and the two guys, Mark and Olly eat these, as well as everything else sago. They make is sound pretty miserable to eat all sago all the time.

Interesting how different perspectives view the same food...

dagoose at 4:47PM on 03/13/08

From Talk

What would your restaurant be?

Ohhh I spend so much time on this. Mine would be served dim sum style, with a steam cart, a cold cart and a frying cart, but it wouldn't just have dim sum, it would have all kinds of wonderful treats--Roasted Marrow bones, pates, anything with strange animal parts, beautifully roasted veggies. Think I could do a roasting cart?

I know it would be hard on the profitibility, because of waste and labor for that, but man, how hard is it to resist delicious looking and smelling things??

dagoose at 12:18PM on 03/06/08

From Talk

Favorite Food-Related Charity?

www.dinefordarfur.org

It's my little baby. And if you are in Washington or Oregon, you should definetly go this tuesday!

dagoose at 6:46PM on 02/29/08

From Talk

Corn tortillas - what's the secret?

For tacos, the key is the dry and hot surface, be it griddle or cast iron skillet. Just a quick warming, then wrap them in a towel and put them on the table. This is how it works in mexico. Don't fill the taco before you are eating it though, then it will cool. Also, you can use the tortillas to keep the filling warm by laying a tortilla (or a few) over the toppings while you eat. Keeps both tortilla and filling warm. My fav. trick from mexico...

dagoose at 1:50PM on 01/25/08

Responses to Comments by dagoose

From Talk

Have higher food prices affected food bloggers?

My blog is restaurant-focused, covering New England and New York, so I'm seeing rising costs two ways: the higher menu prices and the higher gas prices.

Do I mind or have I changed? No. For me, my restaurant explorations and my blog are my hobby. So just as baseball fans pony up more each season to see the same number of games, I'm paying a little more to do what I enjoy, so why change?

Pigtrip1 at 12:25PM on 05/08/08

From Talk

Have higher food prices affected food bloggers?

love2cook, your post makes me a saaaaddd panda :(

franklindelanobluth at 6:13PM on 05/07/08

From Talk

Have higher food prices affected food bloggers?

I have changed as i seem to have lost my zeal for cooking. i have several kids i cook 3 meals a day and i seem to be cooking less "real" food and more processed (shudder)food. I love to cook but it is hard to find the foods that i like and my kids will eat here in my tiny town so i try my best. I used to blog daily about the delish things but it seems like nothing strikes my fancy anymore i don't feel that the things i cook are worth anyones time to read and i only post when it is good and or fabulous. My triple choco walnut brownies are roll your eyes up in a diabetic coma good but it is so hard to find the joy i once had. I hope that i will find my joy again but the prices are so high it is hard to cook as i choose to.

love2cook at 5:00PM on 05/07/08

From Required Eating

Pity the Food Snob

I am a "food snob", but my favorite foods are "cucina povera" or they would be if I lived in the hills of Italy. What I buy from the Greenmarket are mostly greens, roots & tubers, and fruit. Nothing I love more than brocolli rabe with white beans garlic and dried red pepper, or crusty roasted potatoes and winter squash with dried rosemary, winter soup made out of dried chick peas & a couple of dried mushrooms and their soaking liquid...good healthy food doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. A bottle of good olive costs the same as a bottle of decent wine and lasts much longer!

bauwau2u at 11:05AM on 05/01/08

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Pity the Food Snob

personally I dont feel the least bit guilty when I get in my 8 yr old paid for compact car and drive to the grocery store and buy more expensive ingredients with money I worked hard for. Not even when I see a mother with 3 kids in tow filling her cart with junk food and high end meat, paying for it with a state debit card(food stamps), and then getting into a 20,000$ suv with custom wheel covers etc. I'll keep buying my expensive oilve oil as long as I can afford to.

huney_bumper at 8:51AM on 05/01/08

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Pity the Food Snob

Oh my laws, yes!
*handkerchief held daintily to forehead*
I have had to switch from beluga to osetra!

wookie at 5:52PM on 04/30/08

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Pity the Food Snob

mtsod, you really have no idea what you are talking about, and you (and the rest of us too) would be better off if you kept your infantile comments to yourself.

simon at 5:27PM on 04/30/08

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Pity the Food Snob

Let's give up the pricey food and give the money that we would've spent on it to the people who can't perform. Wow, what a concept. It's called socialism and every society who has tried it has failed. It's the classic liberal feels guilty mentality.

mtsod at 5:19PM on 04/30/08

From Required Eating

Pity the Food Snob

Absolutely, there's a conflation of issues. If I can fit healthful, unprocessed, sustainable foods (in some cases that means organic, in some cases local) into my budget -- a budget that includes substantial charitable donations -- how does that harm people who are struggling to get by?

And what a stupid, easy, cheap shot at the NYT.

Fiksu at 5:08PM on 04/30/08

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Pity the Food Snob

I might be a food snob, but I don't see why I need to justify the amount I spend on food, or anything else for that matter. As far as the environmental impact of Italian olive oil, I'm not sure that it's greater than the Wesson that non-snobs are buying. The local [non-snob] mega-supermarkets are full of cheap Chilean fruit and Mexican vegetables and New Zealand lamb. That's evidence of a problem that has nothing to do with food snobs.

juliec at 4:38PM on 04/30/08