http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/07/why-i-write/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/07/why-i-write/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:36:55 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=6473 Why do I feel the need to sit down every week or so and tell perfect strangers about the latest place I went to sip on an excellent coffee? Why does any of it matter, if there are 70,000 food blogs and who knows how many food-based instagram accounts out there? What is my blog adding to ‘the conversation’? These are questions I’ve been struggling with and procrastinating over for the last 6 months or so. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/07/why-i-write/feed/ 12 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/the-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6-2013/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/the-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6-2013/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/calanderise-it-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6/ In a couple of weeks, I’ll be hosting a pre-Christmas recipe swap at the Glebe Library with the City of Sydney. We want people to bring in their Christmas recipes; the ones they love, the ones they hate, the ones they just made up yesterday. You can even bring samples to share, and we’ll eat and talk cooking and eating and Christmas.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/the-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6-2013/feed/ 4 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/what-should-bloggers-do/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/what-should-bloggers-do/#comments Fri, 15 Nov 2013 03:25:43 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=6038 Someone finally said it. Maybe, we’re doing it wrong. But perhaps not in the way that we think...]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/what-should-bloggers-do/feed/ 8 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/on-community/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/on-community/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:00:41 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3427 In a time when it’s commonly assumed we’re all living nutso, hectic, increasingly isolated lives, with the breakdown of family values, declining influence of religion, lack of moral fibre and increasing technologification (not a word) of daily life, I find this quite heartening. So I thought I’d take a break from writing about food and coffee today and turn instead to the food blogging community.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/on-community/feed/ 36 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/foodie-backlash/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/foodie-backlash/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:37:44 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3290 a touch of animosity between food bloggers and the food businesses we write about. This is understandable, as no one starts out in hospitality thinking they want to run a crap restaurant and equally, no one starts out writing about food thinking they are going to produce crap writing. Otherwise, why on earth would we all keep doing what we’re doing? Writing about blogging about food Lately the foodie/food blogger backlash has been growing. Food blogging is increasingly being written about as a no-holds-barred free-for-all where uneducated nobodies who haven’t done the hard yards and thus aren’t entitled to their opinion put in their two cents. Chefs weigh in, journos weigh in, characterising us as annoying, inexpert, opinionated, lacking in standards and constantly compromising our own credibility. True, we have also occasionally been written about in a positive light, such as articles like this and this where we have been characterised as ‘championing’ little known cuisines/suburbs or letting people in on food ‘secrets’, or in this article, where bloggers and the food industry actually (gasp) work together. But by and large it’s been an alarmist, ‘they’re taking our jobs and our free dinners’ panic-fest of slapdash writing.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/04/foodie-backlash/feed/ 15