This Post was written by Maninas from Maninas: Food Matters
Hi everyone!
I'm off to the beautiful Cornwall for a week at the end of July. Any tips, suggestions, recommendations on places to visit, restaurants to try, foods to sample? Much appreciated! Ta!
Maninas
Eating seasonally & (as much as possible) locally is something that I am very passionate about. For me, these are some of the most important reasons for it:
Environment. Greenhouses, food miles, pollution. All this comes to our tables attached with green beans from Kenya in February, or butternut squash from Argentina in June. And it's really unnecessary. Eating seasonally is one of the simplest changes to our lifestyle that we can make to make our world a better, cleaner, greener place. Please join me!
Flavour. This one is a no-brainer. Let us compare and contrast. Watery, tasteless tomato in January vs. its juicy flavourful cousin in July. Now which one would you rather have? I think you know what I'm getting at.
Food cost. Eating what's in season is not only better for the environment, and tastier, but also by far easier on the wallet. When in season, blueberries are not just at their best, but also at their cheapest. Also, in my books, buying tasteless food is a real waste of money. Pointless.
Variety. It forces me to stop indulging in my favourite foods, and explore other possibilities. And so discover new favourite foods! :)
Harmony with the Nature. Eating certain foods at a certain time in the year somehow just feels intrinsically right. Imagine a comforting hug of a velvety butternut squash soup on a winter evening, or a crisp refreshment of a simple salad on a summer afternoon, and you'll know what I'm talking about.
How can we do it? Certainly, the first step is to try and find out what's in season in your part of the world and when. This is where this event comes in. I'd like to encourage us all to do a little research on what's in season where we live right now, share information, our experiences and recipes and create a resource of delicious seasonal recipes for everyone to use.
Join me!
To take part:
Please send an e-mail to maninas [DOT] wordpress [AT] yahoo [DOT[ co [DOT] uk including the following information:
I really look forward to your entries!
Tastespotting has died - sad but true - plenty of comments elsewhere on the whys and the laments but head on over to http://foodgawker.com/ for a very similar replacement!
Hopefully this site wont fall prey to the same problems and will pick up the users from tastespotting.
This Post was written by Andrew from SpittoonExtra
Hi everyone,
I wanted to let you know that I'm working on some exciting new developments for the UK Food Bloggers Association. Blogger isn't working as a platform for us anymore so I'm looking to move to a new one where we can all contribute and network much more freely. I'm also looking at events and activities that we can become involved in so that the association is more active and offers you, as members, much more.
Things are still in development but most importantly I want to ensure that the association gives you what you want from it. So, I'm keen to hear from you - let me know what offerings you'd like to see from the association, how you'd like to use it, what features you'd like to see on the new platform, and what ideas you have for making the association fun and beneficial to us all. We can get some discussion going on this post or if you'd rather email me please do so at asliceofcherrypie@yahoo.co.uk
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,
Julia
This Post was written by Julia from A Slice of Cherry Pie
