My favorite blogs, local food resources, fascinating nutrition news articles and food photography links.
Seasonal, Local and Organic Produce Resources
- Epicureous’ Seasonal Ingredient Map: Click on your state and select a month to view which types of produce are in season in your area.
- Find farmers markets and CSAs in your area on Local Harvest.
- The Dirty Dozen: Learn which types of produce are worth buying organic.
- The Year In Food’s monthly Seasonal Food Guides.
- The Giving Table: Connecting food and philanthropy.
- Whole Foods Market Food Guides: An encyclopedic resource on food of all kinds.
- Martha Stewart’s Produce Guide Index: Browse Martha’s recipes by season and produce.
- Learn how to store produce without plastic.
- Slow Food: Find a Local Chapter
- Gilt Taste: So much goodness here. How to’s, food stories and more.
Nutrition News and Commentary
- Still Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated. For more details, see the full study: Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men.
- Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause. For more details, see The Lancet’s 4 part series on the obesity pandemic and what to do about it.
- Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? No, it’s not, says Mark Bittman in the New York Times
- Is sugar toxic? asks the New York Times
- We’re eating less sugar—but still far too much. For details, read the study.
- Sugar: The Bitter Truth [YouTube video]
- The Harmful Effects of Soda [Infographic]
- Symptoms of Celiac Disease: 97% of celiacs go undiagnosed.
- Eating More Meat, White or Red, Is Bad for the Waistline
- The U.S. Wastes 40 Percent of All Food Produced Per Year. How About We Stop Doing That?
- Can we be trained to like healthy foods? Read the full study: Prenatal and Postnatal Flavor Learning by Human Infants.
- New York Skinny vs. Paris Skinny by Garance Doré
- The Food Writer’s Diet, by a cookbook author and a size 2, Melissa Clark
- Is Food Writing Important? by Michael Ruhlman
Food Photography and Styling Resources
- These links have moved to my Food Photography Tips for Food Bloggers page.
Blogging Resources
Fun Food-Related Links
- My Drunk Kitchen: Hannah Hart is everyone’s favorite drunk cook.
- You Are What You Eat: Photo series exploring the contents of refrigerators around the country by Mark Menjivar.
- DINNER IN NY: Photo series of people eating dinner in NY by Miho Aikawa Photography.
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Great site!! Love the recipes and the content! Thanks for sharing!!
Just stumbled across your blog when searching for healthy, vegetarian recipes. What a goldmine! I can’t wait to try your recipes. Thank you for sharing your love for food with the world.
Thank you for the sweet comment, Lisa. Please let us know how those recipes turn out!
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[...] The best tip I have is to be aware of the intensity of the light and how it hits the food. Learn to adjust accordingly. Beyond that, try to keep the clutter in the photo to a minimum so you can focus on what is most important, but don’t zoom in so much that viewers can’t tell what the food is. Finally, when you’re editing the photos later, be sure to adjust the white balance when necessary. If your plate of food looks very blue or yellow, or too magenta or green, use your white balance tools to fix it! Colors come alive when the white balance is properly set. By the way, I have a long list of food photography resources on my links page. [...]