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/2012/10/the-potluck-club-thank-you/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-potluck-club-thank-you/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:39:11 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4590 Foodbank, Australia’s largest food relief organisation. The book retails for just $5.95 and comes in both mobile device-friendly portrait and a pc/printer-friendly landscape formats. You get both when you purchase the book. But more importantly, each copy sold will fund a dozen meals for those in need. Today I just want to take a moment to thank all the bloggers who have donated their work and their time so that Elise, Amy and I could put together a 50 page e-cookbook of fantastic recipes. We each brought what we could to the table; a recipe, a photo or two and after seven whirlwind weeks from start to finish, it’s done. So thank you. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-potluck-club-thank-you/feed/ 8 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