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Top 4 Chef Blogs That Are Worth Checking Out

While there are 37,500,000 chef blogs online – give or take a million. There are 4 in particular that I find myself going back to read frequently.

Brat Bath – My Favorite Way To Cook Brats At A Tailgate

Considering the season, and the games I’m watching, I thought I’d write about my favorite way to cook brats at a tailgate. I use a brat bath since it helps with a couple of tailgate challenges.

It’s Football Season – Time To Get A Tailgating Grill!

Grilling has 2 seasons:summer and football. Now is the time of year where backyard grillers become parking lot chefs at tailgate parties coast to coast. Before you buy a grill for this tailgate season, here are some things to consider…

People Really Don’t Cook Anymore, Despite All The Food Shows On TV

See how Michael Pollen, author of In Defense of Food. An Eater’s Manifesto turned my philosophy upside down by explaining how the all these celebrity food shows on TV have actually helped turn cooking from a participation activity into a spectator sport! People aren’t cooking anymore? Hmmm…

Do You Know What You’re Eating? Fish Like Orange Roughy & Chilean Sea Bass Have New Names!

As part of seafood marketing, they’re renaming fish populations to increase sales! Will more interesting sounding names entice you to order it more? Personally, I’m trying to eat more sustainable fish. More about that here.

Don’t Use A Bread Machine To Make Bread… Try These Step-By-Step Instructions For Bread Making

I’m so glad I found this amazing step-by-step guide to bread making on Epicurious! You CANNOT make bread wrong when you follow these thorough instructions

Top 10 Recipe Search Sites To Find Recipes Online

Here are the top 10 food websites people are searching to find something to put on the table.

How To Get FREE Cookbooks

The Scribd site is very well done. After signing up for my free account, I browsed for cookbooks and found a page with a slew of them. Many of the titles are small publications from Scribd community members, but as I scrolled down I found cookbooks by Jamie Oliver, Wei Chuan, and other popular chefs.

101 Cookbooks: An Online Journal Of The Best Cookbook Recipes

What do you do when you look at your bookshelves and you see more than 100 cookbooks there? If you’re Heidi Swanson, you break out the pans. And the computer.
Heidi is an award-winning photographer and author who one day in 2003 decided it was time to stop buying books and start cooking what’s in them.

Cooking Green: A Cookbook That Helps You Save The Planet From Your Kitchen

The founder of GlobalGormet.com, which is one of the first cooking sites on the Internet, and more recently NewGreenBasics.com, Kate Heyhoe has written several cookbooks. But it’s her latest book, Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen — the New Green Basics Way, that tackles HOW you cook. Which, she says, is just as important as WHAT you cook.

Shameless Chefs Surprise Viewers, Then Work Magic In Kitchens Across America

On Shameless Chefs, Shameless Dave and Shameless John show up at a house where only the person who invited them knows they’re coming. They surprise the other guests and then get to work in the kitchen — sometimes pulling the guests in with them. Don’t miss their videos… and recipes!

Good Guy Grub – Food & Recipes For The Guys

The Guy Grub Guy has a kitchen that looks more like a hardware store. He cooks in a shop apron and wears a hard hat. And he uses the tools you have in your garage in his kitchen when preparing recipes. That’s what most of his videos are about too: how to use things like pliers, saws and hammers as cooking utensils. Don’t miss this!

Fun Cooking Inventions Predict What Dining In 2015 Might Be Like

Check out all 4,000 food inventions that were submitted for the Dining in 2015 contest and let me know what you think! Judges were looking for the most interesting designs in cutlery, tableware, cookware, and cooking tools.

FixMyRecipe’s Chef Billy Parisi Turns Your Recipe Gone Wrong Into A Cooking Video Done Right!

Fix My Recipe is where regular, everyday home cooks can submit to the website recipes they may have once had right, or recipes that might have been handed down from a relative, but when they cook them now they come out all wrong. You know you have a few of those. Chef Billy Parisi then turns your recipe into a cooking video!

‘Cook Yourself Thin’ Coming To Lifetime

Cook Yourself Thin is a British favorite that Lifetime Television is bringing to our shores this spring.

The first season is 20 episodes and will show viewers how to eat foods they like, that taste good, and that will help them lose weight.

Average Betty – The SNL of Cooking Videos

Chances are you’re not going to find a cooking video that will have you laughing like Average Betty’s will. Average Betty does for cooking what Saturday Night Live does for the nightly news. The meat of the recipe is there, but the video is really more of a comedy sketch. The result has made Average Betty an Internet celebrity of sorts.

Top Chef Masters: Bravo’s New Top Chef Spin-off

I will be interested to see how this works for Bravo. Top Chef has grown into the top-rated cooking show on cable, but I think it’s harder for viewers to connect with celebrity chefs than it is for us to connect with average foodies, like you and me.

With The iFood Assistant App, The iPhone Becomes A Kitchen Appliance

The iPhone can now help you make dinner. Or lunch. Or a snack! Kraft has released iFood Assistant. It cost 99 cents and has quickly become one of the top 100 apps for the iPhone!

Casting For Top Chef 6 – Do You Have What It Takes?

Casting calls are now underway across the country for the 6th season of Top Chef on Bravo TV. Here are the dates and information for the following cities: Seattle WA, Atlanta GA, New York NY, Philadelphia PA, Los Angeles CA, and Chicago IL.

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