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Food Styling and Food Photography Tips

July 1, 2010
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I love food. I love to eat it and dream up new ways to engage with all its different ingredients. I enjoy playing with my food, photographing it, telling stories about it. Clearly food is much more than a…

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National Food Blogger Bake Sale

April 13, 2010
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Bloggers from across the nation come together and bake for Share Our Strength to raise money to put an end to childhood hunger.

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Touchstone Cookbooks

April 6, 2010
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Maybe it’s because I’m approaching a somewhat noteworthy age, but I choose to believe that perhaps the most significant of all my birthdays was my fifth. Why? My fifth birthday marked the day that my obsession with food (and food…

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Food Blog Ethics in Columbia Journalism Review

February 5, 2010
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It’s been nine months since my writing partner, Leah Greenstein, and I created Food Ethics and our controversial Food Blog Code of Ethics. In those months, much has happened here in the world of online food writing and criticism.…

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Club Med Food Blogger Camp Tips and Insights

January 15, 2010
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Thanks to a food writing scholarship and the generous support of friends, I am writing this post from Ixtapa, Mexico’s Club Med Food Blogger Camp. For one week, a small group of food bloggers gather together to enjoy the…

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Goodbye to the ‘Naughts

December 31, 2009
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This first decade of the new century has been a doozy. In just ten years, life stories have been written and re-written by time, chance, good fortune, and circumstance. These first ten years have been marked wonderful little moments,…

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Menu for Hope 6: Wire Sculpture from Food Woolf

December 14, 2009
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As we wade deeper into the holiday season, the more many of us think of ways to give back. Donating to a local charity, helping out a friend in need, and giving handmade gifts are wonderful ways to contribute…

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Food Blogger Gift Guide

December 12, 2009
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Food Blogger Holiday Gift Ideas 2009

It seems like everyone I meet nowadays is a food blogger. We’re a unique bunch of people that obsess over…

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The Hero’s Journey, Through Food Blogging Part II

December 1, 2009
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[This is Part Two of a Previous Post]

“If what you are following is your own true adventure…then magical guides will appear to help you.”–Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

In celebration of my two year anniversary, I’ve…

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The Hero’s Journey, Through Food Blogging (Part one)

December 1, 2009
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“The hero’s journey always begins with the call.” –Jospeh Campbell

Joseph Campbell, author of The Heroes Journey, called this significant shift, the “inciting incident” within a character’s story. This event in a real person’s life is called a turning…

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