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Friday Foodie Feature

June 18, 2010 in Uncategorized by traveleatlove | 4 comments

It’s the weekend! I took a vacation day today to head to NJ to visit my family. It’s supposed to be a beautiful weekend, and I hope you are all gearing up for it! Next week is busy busy. I have a tweet up at the Melting Pot, dinner with some food and wine Twitter friends, a visit to a new cafe, and Taste of Cambridge, so I will enjoy some family time and rest this weekend!

Today’s foodie is a blogger who is new-ish to me, Brian from A Thought for Food. In the few weeks that I have been reading his blog, I have decided that he chose the perfect name for it. It is a beautiful site, and there is clearly a lot of thought put into it. He has some incredible food photos and recipes. My email correspondences with Brian have also really shown a lot of thought. When I needed a guest post because of a broken laptop he was the first to respond and ready to help. Overall, he is a great blogger, a super kind person, and someone I hope to meet at a Boston event soon! And I love the post he chose as his favorite so check it out!

How long have you been blogging?
July will mark the first anniversary of A Thought For Food

What is your favorite thing about blogging?
I love that blogging has introduced me to foodies from around the world who share a common love for cooking.

Least favorite?
Planning what to blog about next. I just have too many recipes I want to make and not enough time to make all of them.

What has been your most fun blog post to write?

http://www.athoughtforfood.net/2010/05/wedding-photographer-comes-for-dinner.html
A recent entry where my wedding photographer came over and took pictures of a dinner I made, which included a whole grilled haddock. It was a very collaborative experience.

Where do you see your blog this time next year?
It took the past year for me to really find my voice and I see that continuing to develop in the years to come. I also believe that the blog thrives off of other people’s connections to the stories and recipes I write about, so I hope that my readership continues to grow.

Is there anything else about your blogging experience you would like to share?
I think it’s a challenge for any amateur cook to find an outlet to express their love for food. But what I’ve enjoyed so much about blogging is that it has allowed me to be creative in a way that few mediums can provide.

Want to be a featured foodie? Email me at traveleatlove (@) gmail.com. I am currently seeking foodies for the next 8 weeks or so!

ALSO since many of you are healthy living bloggers/readers, I wanted to share with you a bit of amazingness. George, who I met at Vino Voyage, is riding across the country to raise money for the Community Rowing adaptive program. You can check out his bio, route, and find more information on the cause here. http://thexcrideforcri.us/site/Welcome.html. And yes, that’s riding a BIKE across the country from Boston, MA to Portland, OR. You can follow him on Twitter, and I am sure he would appreciate the support!

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Friday Foodie Feature

June 4, 2010 in Uncategorized by traveleatlove | 11 comments

Why does it always seem that short weeks feel REALLY long? I am happy to watch this past work week fade away and to tackle a fun weekend ahead. Other than a late Saturday brunch with friends and some volunteering at the MSPCA, my plans are few. How about you?

Last night, we finally received our beautiful new Vissani wine refrigerator. As part of stocking the fridge, I also decided to catalogue all of our wine. Something like oh, 80 bottles later, I was done. I am going to do a separate post on our home wine list and keeping your home sufficiently stocked this weekend, so stay tuned. It was actually a lot of fun and not as time consuming as I had imagined! It made me realize we have a lot of wine from California, New England, and Sicily but not from too many other places. Must expand wine horizons.

It has been awhile since I have done a Friday Foodie Feature due to some fun and bloggable Thursday night events (Vino Voyage, Boston Wine Exchange tasting, to name a few) and I am excited to bring back the feature with a blogger many of you love, Tina from Carrots ‘n’ Cake! Tina’s was the first blog I ever read and was one of the blogs that inspired me to start blogging. I have had the opportunity to hang out with her a few times, and she is just as fun and down to earth as she seems in her blog, the perfect balance of healthy and fit with fun. She is always super busy and working hard, and I am happy she had the time to be featured here today!

How long have you been blogging?

Just about 2.5 years now. It’s crazy how time flies when you’re having fun!

What is your favorite thing about blogging? Least favorite?

My favorite thing about blogging is the community. I have met so many
incredible people and learned so much from the blog world. My least
favorite thing about blogging is the mean/negative comments. (What’s
the point?)

What has been your most fun blog post to write?

The post announcing that I resigned from my full-time job at Harvard.
The photo still cracks me up!

http://carrotsncake.com/2009/10/i-resigned.html

Where do you see your blog this time next year?

Hopefully, it will be trucking along at the same pace!

Is there anything else about your blogging experience you would like to share?

I never planned for blogging to become such a big part of my life, but
I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute of the adventure!

If you haven’t been to Carrots ‘n’ Cake, you should definitely go on over for your fix of healthy, delicious meals, fun workouts, beer, wine, and other fun.

Don’t forget that I will announce the winner of my wine and cheese giveaway tomorrow!

What are your weekend plans?

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Friday Foodie Feature

April 30, 2010 in Uncategorized by traveleatlove | 7 comments

First things first. Have you entered my Honest Tea giveaway? You can enter to win an entire case of a variety of Honest Tea flavors, so check it out!

It has been a good week for the bloggy with my first Foodgawker acceptance (followed by a dozen rejections!), my first Foodbuzz Top 9, and some fun giveaways in the works. I love a good blog week!

Otherwise, I have been dragging. I think it’s just the weather which is past due for some warmth and sunshine. It is promised to be in the 70’s for the weekend, and I can not wait, not to mention that I have 2 great wine events and a possible food event coming up this week. TGIF!

Today’s foodie feature, Erin from Travel Eat Repeat is a girl after my own heart. She has an awesome travel and living abroad background and shares my goal of eating her way around the world and telling everyone about it! Erin’s blog is so much fun, and it is really just a breath of fresh air to read. I love checking it out every day, and I can’t wait to see what adventures she finds stateside!

How long have you been blogging?

I’ve been blogging since October 2007, when I started my blog (then called Postcards From the World) to keep in touch with friends and family back home while studying abroad in London. It wasn’t something I started doing regularly until I moved to South Korea in September 2008. Suddenly, blogging was a fantastic way to record my day-to-day life in Seoul and share that experience with others, too.

What is your favorite thing about blogging? Least favorite?

I love meeting new people–both in person and on-line–and realizing how many shared interests we have. Blogging has also introduced me to new recipes, cool products and created a fantastic Internet network of liked-minded people. There’s nothing I don’t like about blogging, except maybe those days when absolutely nothing has happened and I feel like there’s nothing to say or blog about. Luckily those days are pretty rare.

What has been your most fun blog post to write?

People really seemed to like the posts I wrote about traveling through Australia and New Zealand but my personal favorite was called “How to travel around the world without being rich.” By far the thing I get the most emails and comments about is “how do you travel so much?” so I was able to talk about my experience teaching in Korea and being budget-conscious.

Where do you see your blog this time next year?

My life is changing so much right now–settling down from traveling, searching for an apartment, interviewing for full-time jobs. I want my blog to reflect that and show what it’s like to be a single girl living in the city and exploring everything there is to do here.

Is there anything else about your blogging experience you would like to share?

I don’t keep a “traditional” food blog but that’s definitely the type of blog I read the most. It’s fun to do my own thing and I really encourage more people to start blogging, no matter what subject they want to write about. Thanks so much for this opportunity, Meghan!

Thank you, Erin, for sharing some of your adventures with us and especially for sharing this photo, which is no doubt the best photo to ever be posted on Travel Eat Love!