It’s that wonderful time of the month again to take a sneak peek at the Top 20 food blogs, as according to the good people at Wikio. The photograph above was taken at Queen’s Park Farmers Market, on a rather pleasant Sunday morning. 1 Maison Cupcake 2 Fuss Free Flavours 3 meemalee’s kitchen 4 Cheese and Biscuits 5 Hollow Legs 6 The Pink Whisk 7 Food Stories 8 Chocolate Log Blog 9 The English Can Cook 10 Fresh from the oven 11 eat like a girl 12 youngandfoodish 13 London Eater 14 Cook Sister! 15 Chocablog 16 www.Prepped.co.uk 17 Belleau Kitchen 18 Chocolate Teapot 19 a rather unusual chinaman 20 Essex Eating Ranking made by Wikio.co.uk
Happy Chinese New Year folks. I took this picture yesterday, at my parents’ house in Brunei. It’s a lion dance to usher the new year in, and I think the lion had peeled three satsumas to make the chinese character of ‘Wang’ , which is suppose to mean blooming, booming prosperity, I think. It’s all good baby. Wikio.co.uk – February Gastronomy Ranking 1 Chocablog 2 Maison Cupcake 3 Jim’s Chocolate Mission 4 Mostly About Chocolate 5 Hollow Legs 6 Food Stories 7 Fuss Free Flavours 8 Cheese and Biscuits 9 a rather unusual chinaman 10 meemalee’s kitchen 11 Chocolate Log Blog 12 eat like a girl 13 London Eater 14 Cook Sister! 15 A Slice of Cherry Pie 16 He-Eats 17 Chocolate Teapot 18 The Pink Whisk 19 The English Can Cook 20 The English Kitchen Ranking made by Wikio.co.uk
It’s that time of the month once again to look at the movers and shakers as according to the good folks at Wikio. And this month, we have yet another new leader at the top of the heap, Maison Cupcake who has jumped 38th since the end of 2010. Well done to Sarah!
The last Wikio rankings preview of the 2010… and we have a new leader this month (again). These guys blog about the very cutting edge in the world of chocolates. Exciting how this list shifts every month no? Assuming you are still into these stats that is&#
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been busy helping Jennifer Joyce, food writer, stylist and a cracking chef with the redesign of her blog, Meals in Heels – an extension of one of her many very cool cookbooks of the same name. I’m not a web design
Well this is interest, plenty of new names breaking into the top 20 this month, including the brand new entrant Food stuff finds making its debut at top spot..! Refreshing really, some new blogs to trawl through. and it is nice to especially pleasing to see Daniel’s excellent
21/10 UPDATE – There appears to be a youtube video preview for this event here. Now, I don’t usually announce events on my blog, but I went to last year’s version of this food fest through my very Taiwanese extended family, and was totally impressed
And here is a sneaky look at the Top 20 belly shakers for October, rankings put together by the chaps over at Wikio. They measure blog influence by how well networked they are, in relation to one another and to the rest of the interwebs, or so I understand
A long long time ago, I used to write these weekly round-up posts which I called ‘eat & read’ . They were more useful to me, than to readers, it was a place which I linked to pieces I bookmarked. I’ve always wanted to resurrect that series of posts, much breezier to write, because it was not shackled by subject matter. Not an ego thing, it’s nice to just broadcast thoughts to the wind at times, and not bother about how people would respond or use it. So I get obsessed with certain themes every week, you can loosely follow it on twitter – which I find astounding that people actually do, because it’s mostly just mental noise – this week I became completely enthralled with Jeff Wall’s work. This piece on NYT explains his process and why his photography is artistic treasure (single pieces of his work, sell for upwards of a million quid, easy). I’m a really big fan. Google the invisible man. And Martin Parr who is a Magnum photographer, and in my opinion, probably the best contemporary British docu-photographer of our time. I ordered his seminal book ‘The Last Resort’ recently. As you know, I love taking pictures, and I spend enough time idolising the masters of the craft. Speaking of, I’m in the midst of experimenting with film food photos for this blog. Blending film
Having to update my list of favourites is the least of my worries, and this is probably the only time, in my time as a blogger, that I feel devastated enough to compel me to write a few words about the closing of a restaurant, and the factors which surround it,
Yes I cannot believe it too. It is two years ago today, that I assaulted the internet with my barrage of hot air and vulgar food photography, which may as well be classified as taboo, and I would just like to start by saying Thank You for reading and putting up with me. So far I have made public 376 pieces of nonsense,
I updated my little list of favourite restaurants today, and just wanted to let you know about this… Released to the wild on 12-08-2010. Read version1. I love food blogs for the personality behind them, and for its ever-evolving nature. However keeping up
Running a little behind this month, but here it is. The full listings are due to be published on August 10th. 1 Hollow Legs 2 Cheese and Biscuits 3 Food Stories 4 eat like a girl 5 meemalee’s kitchen 6 DOS HERMANOS 7 The English Kitchen 8 Cook Sister! 9 Intoxicating Prose
Dim sum is one of the most unique and entirely accessible experiences in food. The literal translation for dim sum is ‘touch your heart’ – a term chosen to describe the style which is suppose to be small, packaged, and dare I say ‘bite-sized’ to tickle your fancy rather than cure a ravenous appetite. Dim sum is interchangeable with ‘Yum Cha’ – which simply means ‘let’s go for tea’. So the saying goes (according to my old bar manager) that in the same way an Englishman can hold his pint, a chinese guy can hold his tea… well quite the same thing but you get my drift
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