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Thank God for Twitter! I’m sure I would have found out eventually, but I saw a tweet this morning congratulating me on being nominated in the video category for the Saveur Magazine 1st Annual Best Blog Awards! I had no idea, and quickly went to make sure I wasn’t being punk’d…it was true!
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Bacon is delicious, rich, fatty; we all know this, says Chef Tim Love in the Daily Beast. But this thing where we put it in everything, that’s got to stop. The bacon flavor takes over, for starters: “With any ingredient, no matter how versatile, it is the chef’s job to temper it. Instead, because it’s [...]

If you weren’t already aware of our burgeoning national jerky craze, the Minneapolis-based restaurant Hell’s Kitchen is ratcheting things up a notch by holding an event that it’s proclaiming the first annual Jerky Competition on April 5.
Via the press release: “Pros as well as amateurs can enter, with a Grand Prize of $300 cash plus [...]

Time magazine has published an exceedingly silly list of the “Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods.” Lazy beyond belief and essentially without any kind of organizing principle that might help give it shape or definition, the list includes stuff like rhubarb (pictured at right), because if you eat rhubarb leaves, they’re dangerous!; fugu, which kills a [...]

This is an incredibly simple dish and popular in the villages especially, in the cold winter months. It is not so much the lentil soup that is so enjoyable as the whole meal with the accompaniments – feta cheese covered in olive oil and sprinkled with oregano; olives and bread, ideally olive pitta bread – [...]

It’s common practice in Greece if you visit someone during the day or early evening, to be offered a spoon sweet, or ‘gliko koutaliou’. This is a sweet made from fruit and kept in a jar, to be served on sweet dish (preferrable glass) whenever someone comes. All types of fruit are used, but this [...]

This method of cooking sea bass (Lavraki) is popular on the island of Cephalonia, especially in Fiskardo, where large amounts of the fish can be found in the sea. What makes it different is that the stomach is filled with the garlic an herbs and it is baked wrapped in greaseproof paper. It’s quite easy [...]

Whether you are a food blogger or just interested in finding great recipes and interacting with other foodies online, food networks are a great resource. I have listed 10 networks (in alphabetical order) that you might like to check out and decide to join.
BakeSpace

Food Bloggers

Foodblogs

Foodbuzz

Foodista

FoodTubeNet

Group Recipes

Half Hour Meals

The Leftover Queen Forum

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This coming Monday – February 15 – is Clean Monday in Greece. This is the start of the Lent period before Easter and there are several traditional dishes that are eaten on this day. Below, you’ll find some of them. Just click on the links to go to the recipes.

Taramosalata

This is also well-known worldwide. It [...]