What I've been reading
Posted by kathryn in Food Labelling and Blogging
Given I’ve ditched the blogroll, I thought I’d run through some of the blogs I’ve been reading recently.
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
One of my recent discoveries are The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl . With over 50% of men and 40% of women in NSW overweight or obese, the difficulties of losing weight is a big topic and Dietgirl’s site is a very personal account of her challenges and successes. Everyone needs support while making major life changes and Dietgirl has found it online. I particularly like this post, where she flips the weight loss mentality – it’s not about deprivation and denial, it’s about being healthy.
Orangette & Gluten-Free Girl
Orangette and Gluten-Free Girl are blogs I’ve been reading for almost a year now and they’re simply two of the best writers about food (and life) I’ve come across. Shauna also publishes recipes, resources and inspiration for all those people who are living gluten-free, while Molly is my egg poaching guru .
Shaping Youth
I’ve talked on a number of occasions about food labelling, the campaign to ban junk food advertising to kids and even problems with cordial adverts, but much more detail on these issues can be found at Shaping Youth. The site is US based and covers all types of youth marketing, not just food.
Fatfree Vegan & Vanesscipes
On the recipe front I’m loving Fatfree Vegan. I’m a long-term vegetarian and we have vegan food a lot, but Susan’s recipes are more imaginative and interesting than anything I’ve come across. Her food isn’t totally fat free, for example she uses nuts, coconut milk and sesame oil, but she doesn’t add any extra fat during the cooking. My other current recipe favourite is vanesscipes – vegetarian recipes with a healthy dose of attitude. She shares my love of khichri and I currently can’t get this recipe out of my head.
Pause
And completely off the topic of food, diets, health and recipes, Jory’s site – Pause – is the reason I started blogging in the first place. What she writes makes sense to me in a deeply felt, YES-that’s-how-it-is kind of way. On my RSS feeder, Jory’s is the first blog I’ll read and her writing stays with me – I’ll find myself thinking about it a couple of days later.
11 January, 2007
Comments
Hey Kathryn – I do think a post like this can be more helpful than a blogroll. I love Orangette and Gluten Free Girl too (also check out glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com – excellent healthy recipes set beautifully.) Susan V at FatFree Vegan has super recipes – I heartily agree!
Horray for RSS feeds!
My eggplant burger was actually adapted from a meal my mom makes with beef burgers that’s kind of a misnomer – “Scallopini Burgers.” “Scallopini” means a meat pounded really thin, like veal scallopini, so I’m guessing my mom adapted a Veal Scallopini with a red mushroom sauce, using the more cost-effecient ground beef (the 5 of us kids at A LOT) instead of the veal. So my recipe an adaption of Veal Scallopini, twice removed.
What a joy to see Pause on your gorgeous blog. I appreciate that you include brain food in your list. I’m not normally a “food blog reader” but you’ve just inspired me to read more! Thanks for the shout out.
Vanessa, thanks for the info re glutenfree goddess, I shall have to investigate that site. And I love that your eggplant burgers is a hand-me-down and adapted family recipe. My mum and I make a Greek Chicken stew, that has long since lost the chicken. While we both started with the same recipe, our individual versions are gradually moving wider and wider apart.
Jory – thanks for dropping by. In my opinion, the food blogging world just keeps getting better and better, especially in my area – food, it’s relationship with health and our attitudes and feelings towards it. And we need more of this stuff, because we need more food-literacy.
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