Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Food Blogger Happy Hour

August 25, 2010

Food Blogger Happy Hour

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour
September 1, 2010, 6PM
@Poste Moderne Brasserie
555 8th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004

Co-hosts: Amelia of Gradually Greener and Jenna of ModernDomestic. This will be the first anniversary of the monthly DC event. RSVP here.

 

Image (“Food Blogger Happy Hour, after Osias Beert the Elder”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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DC Food Blogger Happy Hour Wednesday, June 2nd

June 1, 2010

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour, Wednesday June 2nd

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour
Wednesday June 2, 2010 – 6 to 8 pm
ZENTAN
Donvan House Hotel
1155 14th street NW
Washington, D.C 20005

RSVP on Facebook.

More at: Capital Spice, Dining in DCGirl Meets Food, Gradually Greener, Johnna Knows Good Food, Modern Domestic, Thrifty DC Cook, and elsewhere in the DC foodie Blogosphere.

 

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DC Food Blogger Happy Hour May 5, 2010

May 3, 2010

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour May 5, 2010

DC Food Blogger Happy Hour
Wednesday May 5, 2010 – 6 to 8 pm
Restaurant 3
2950 Clarendon Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 524-4440

Clarendon Metro Station (Orange Line).

RSVP on Facebook.

More at Dining in DCJohnna Knows Good Food, Gradually Greener, and elsewhere in the DC foodie Blogosphere.

 

Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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Blogs With Bite

April 19, 2010

Blogs With Bite

Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.

Here’s a fresh serving of Blogs with Bite:

Asian Dumpling Tips  Few people know more about gyōza, wonton, lumpia, momo, bao, har gow, siu mai, and samosa than Andrea Nguyen, and none of them write as well.

McDonald’s History — “Travel through time using our Interactive Timeline! See the birth of McDonald’s, the launch of your favorite menu item, McDonald’s characters, or advertising jingles!”

Jellypress  — “Old recipes, art, and ideas” from Laura Schenone and Nancy Ring.

SardineKing.com – “The largest collection of vintage California sardine can labels on the Internet.” Gallery and Pacific sardine facts.

à la carte —  The “culinary ramblings, thoughts, comments, observations, and miscellany of one Francophile [Peter Hertzmann] including lots of recipes and pictures.” 

BBC Glossary of Food Terms —  “A to Z guide to cookery terms” from BBC Food.

airlinemeals.net  World’s largest website about airline meals. Economy Class, Business Class, and First Class meals; airline food in films; menu card archive; more.

Flagrante Delícia — Remarkable desserts by Leonor de Sousa Bastos; astounding photography by Miguel Coelho. Also in Portuguese.

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DC Blogger Meetup Wednesday, April 14th

April 13, 2010

 DC Blogger Meetup Wednesday, April 14th

This month’s Washington, DC Blogger Meetup is Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 7 PM at a Dupont Circle watering hole (near Metro). RSVP by 4 PM Wednesday (requires free Meetup registration).

Founded in 2002, this Meetup provides opportunities for Metro DC area blog writers and readers to share experiences and tips, drink beer, socialize, drink beer, and plan collaborative blogging projects and other events. Did we mention that beer is available?

Spend a couple of hours with other DC bloggers this Wednesday.  You can blog about the Nucear Security Summit afterwards.

Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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Blogs With Bite

March 31, 2010

Blogs With Bite

Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.

Here’s a fresh serving of Blogs with Bite:

HotSauceDaily.com   Brian Meagher’s blog is a guide to all things hot and spicy – reviews, recipes, BBQ and more.” 

Honey.com Website of the National Honey Board, “a federal research and promotion board under USDA oversight.”  Consumer and honey industry information, recipes, research and more. NHB also has an online Honey Locator — search for honey produced from the nectar of specific flowers or in your area. Kosher honey? No problem.

Culinary Types  Engaging writing about food by T.W. Barritt.

Bricole — “An idiosyncratic and opinionated dictionary of Italian words related to food, with audio accompaniment” by Simona.  The chronological entries are charming but there is an alphabetical index if you need one.

Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic Association — Adam and Eve were vegetarians; so are many Seventh Day Adventists. This is the website of SDA registered dietitians.

It’s All About the Bacon — It’s all about cured swine flesh. Photos and hyperlinks, with occasional recipes for dishes like Bacon Baklava with Pomegranate Molasses.

Heat Eat Review — Abi Jones reviews convenience foods for “ease of preparation, deliciousness, and bang for the buck.”

Global Crop Diversity Trust — Perhaps you have heard of the “doomsday vault” full of seeds in a remote part of Norway that will preserve food crop varieties in case of global disaster. These are the folks who run it. The seed bank and cryopreservation are not just tools for food security; they preserve living culture as well.

Taste of Beirut — If anyone has the right to make Lebanese Nachos, it’s Beirut-born Texan Joumana Accad. Her blog features “Lebanese recipes for home cooking.”

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No Girlz Allowed — Blogging is for Boys!

March 20, 2010

No Girlz Allowed -- Blogging is for Boys!

Canadian columnist Margaret Wente wrote a column called “Why are bloggers male?” You can read it on her blog.

Okay, it’s a newspaper website, but it’s online. Other online women wonder what universe Ms. Wente lives in, chief among them Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon‘s Broadsheet:

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Blogs with Bite

February 27, 2010

Blogs With Bite

Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.

Here’s a fresh serving of Blogs with Bite:

Plate of the Day Daily recipes of outstanding interest from New York’s Simon Dang.

Cooking With Kangaroo —  “Kangaroo meat is used by some of the worlds best restaurants ….”  Recipes from the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia.

18thC Cuisine  — 18th century French cuisine “as a habitante in Nouvelle France may have cooked.” Carolyn Smith-Kizer re-enacts history in the kitchen and blogs about it, with recipes.

Kopiaste  — Ivy Liacopoulou welcomes you into her kitchen for Greek, Cypriot, and international recipes.

Cooking Gadgets  — Flatbed toaster. Adjustable rolling pin. Salad dressing mixer. Dry ice maker. All this plus Cyndi Lavin’s recipes.

Pizza Today — “#1 Magazine of the Pizza Industry.”

Kumquat RecipesKumquat Growers, Inc. of Dade City, Florida provides 41 recipes and answers that age-old question, “What is a kumquat?”

The African Cookbook — Selected recipes from Bea Sandler’s 1993 compilation, via the University of Pennsylvania African Studies Department.

Food Moulds The website of noted culinary historian and educator Ivan Day displays historic food molding devices, dishes made with them, and associated recipes. There are additional period recipes, sugar sculptures, and table settings from museum exhibitions curated by Mr. Day.

My Colombian Recipes —  Columbian cooking; good notes about ingredients.

So Good Jon Eick blogs about food marketing and the kind of foods that get “marketed.”  Hilarity prevails.

Hungry For Change —  “Posts on genetic engineering, school nutrition, pesticides, urban farms, and more.”

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Snowpocalypse

February 11, 2010

Snowpocalypse

The DC Blogosphere is experiencing a whiteout:

“Closings for Thursday, Feb. 11,” Sommer Mathis, DCist

“Snowed Under: How Are Funeral Homes Dealing?” Jason Cherkis, WCP City Desk

“Residents Not Impressed With Solar Snow Removal Plan,” FamousDC

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February DC Blogger Meetup Snowed Out

February 10, 2010

February DC Blogger Meetup Snowed Out

Wednesday’s Washington, DC Blogger Meetup is canceled due to inclement weather. Like everything else in DC.

Next Meetup: Wednesday, March 10th. Details here.

 

Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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