Category: Food Blogs & Websites
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Killer Sandwich!
If you’re a Twitterer you may already be aware of Killer Sandwich – an ingenious and delicious food project from the clever people at Mr & Mrs Stevens. They’re designers but their love of food inspired them to start this extremely tasty sideline. Here’s how it works: Every Wednesday, they tweet the type of sandwich…
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Recipe: Creamy Macaroni Bake with Salami and Chilli
Irish-born Katie Quinn Davies has done really well with her blog www.whatkatieate.com and award-winning book “What Katie Ate”. She’s also my partner in crime from school. All of her stuff is drool-worthy but I asked her what her most popular easy dinner recipe is. She said this gets the best feedback by a mile. It…
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Eating & Poverty: Miss South in the Observer Food Monthly
The food magazine that comes with The Observer once a month is always impressive, but I was really impressed by the piece in last Sunday’s budget special by blogger Miss South of northsouthfood.com. With admirable dignity and restraint, she tackles many of the lazy assumptions that people make about what it’s like to try to…
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Cheap and Cheerful Christmas: Peter’s Article in Pricewatch today
Our very own Peter has a great piece in the Irish Times Pricewatch section today on ways to enjoy a cheap and cheerful Christmas. He has tips for restaurants and good pub food all around the country. There’s also recommendations for country bars that will arrange transport for their customers, alternatives to pub crawls and…
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For Food’s Sake BBQ: Toner’s, Sat 11th Aug
You may have heard of some of the nifty events that For Food’s Sake have organised over the last year or two – such as movies paired with food in the Sugar Club and discussion evenings where producers talk about the future of food in Ireland. They have one coming up this weekend in Toner’s…
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Restaurant Reviews with Google+ Local
Google, internet search giants and compulsive creators of amazing web gizmos that we quickly learn to take for granted, have moved into restaurant reviews with their new Google+ Local. I have to say, it’s pretty nifty in the way that it combines the authority of a recognised guide with public comments. Let me explain: Google…
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GreenCrossParcel.ie
The creators of GreenCrossParcel.ie, a new online shop that allows you to send classic Irish products to friends overseas, got in touch recently to ask us to help spread the word about their site. There are a lot of online food shops out there but this service is a little different – they are donating…
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A Blog About Crisps
A Blog About Crisps does exactly what it says on the tin – their mission statement is: “Reviewing as many different types of crisp as possible until we run out of varieties or die from doing so” – but it also does quite a bit more. I’m really enjoying the dry humour of their writing…
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Family Recipes on Mummypages.ie
I recently came across a lovely resource for home cooks while looking for ideas for Pancake Tuesday. The parenting site MummyPages.ie has a very comprehensive recipes section, with recipes put together by MummyPages and tested by their team of mums. Recipes can be filtered by category, there’s loads that are suitable for families and there…
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Cheapeats in the Huffington Post: TripAdvisor’s fake review problem
Listen up, somebody. Today, I’m blogging on the Huffington Post about the problem of fake online reviews. My article follows Conor Pope’s excellent article in The Irish Times on the Carlton Group, who were caught red-handed asking their employees to post fake reviews on TripAdvisor. We’ve some experience of dealing with this problem on this site:…