The brother-in-law, @llocklee, refers to me as the Librarian - and I guess I do like to collect / organise information for fast finding & later re-use. That includes my foodie interests. The books are all catalogued in LibraryThing and the cuttings piled, then filed in bulging folders.
It's something I inherited from my mother - she tells me that she was forced to give up Asian food when pregnant with me - but ever afterward she has enjoyed experimenting. I remember her favourites seemed to be the 1960's Flemings supermarket magazines & the 1950's Aerophos cookbook (both of these early Australian foodie ref's were surprisingly international in coverage compared with the Commonsense Cookery Book & can still be picked up on Ebay from time to time). She also did traditional Aussie style including a mean Devilled Sausages, that I'd almost forgotten until I came across the remarkably similar 'Mrs Adams's Savoury Sausages' in Kylie Kwong's "Recipes & Stories" (p 40). Coincidentally amazing is that Mum is a Mrs Adams too.
I can't say that Mum specifically taught me how to cook, rather, I absorbed from her the enjoyment of experimenting with new ideas. Now in her 70's, she's still experimenting with newly discovered surprises, brought over for our regular Sunday night family dinners. I do the mains & Mum does the desserts plus "sweet treats" for the week, for my teen, Kat.
And of course Mum also has numerous cookbooks, folders & cuttings stashed around her home. I sometimes say that Mum was born before her time - with the now exploding global foodie scene. Last weekend we took her to the Mecca Bah in Canberra after the twilight viewing of the Masterpieces from Paris Exhibition at the NGA. Tonight it's Nam's Vietnamese in Wollongong (one of the many Vietnamese), after the Wharf Theatre Revue's "Pennies from Kevin".
A few of my favourite foodie websites :
- Mag & Newspaper foodie sites
- Taste.com - drawn from a number of Australian foodie Mags - even has my Masaman Chicken Pide - hot & spicy !
- AWW Food / Cuisine.com.au / HomeLife / Australian Gourmet Traveller
- BHG Oz / BHG USA
- TV foodie sites
- ABC - Poh's Kitchen - Secret Recipes - Surfing the Menu
- TEN - Ready Steady Cook
- LifeStyle Channel
- SBS - Food
- Eating Out in Wollongong - The Eating Out Map - Thirroul Seaside Art Festival (always yummy food) - (more than food ... What's Up Wollongong / Viva La Gong / Shoalhaven Wine Trail / Southern Highlands Wineries )
- Maggie Beer / Donna Hay / Ben O'Donoghue / Curtis Stone / Elise Pascoe / Mietta's
- All Recipes / Good Recipes / My Recipes / Recipezaar / WorldWide Gourmet / Korean Kitchen / Sydney Markets
- Cupcakes - AWW Food /Taste.com / All Recipes / Recipezaar / Cupcakes.com / WhiteWings
- Supermarket foodie sites : Coles on Line / Woolworths / IGA
- Sold in Australia - Food product sites : Ayam / Barilla / Bega Cheese / BKK / Cadbury's / Capilano / Chang's / Cheesematters / CSR / Dairy Farmers / Devondale / Fonterra / Goodman Fielder / Gourmet Garden / Hakubaku Noodles / Keens Curry / Kellogs / Kikkomans / King Island Dairy / Kraft / Lee Kum Kee / Market Fresh / Massel / MasterFoods / McCormicks / McKenzies / Nestle / Oriental (Obento) / Pandaroo / Pataks / Pauls / Queen Essences / Red Meat - The Main Meal / Riviana / Sanitarium / Sharwoods / Simply Great Meals / SPC Ardmona / Spice Bazaar / Sunbeam / Sunrice / The Butchers Voice / The Malaya / Vegeta / Western Star Butter / Whitewings
And some of my favourite foodie blogs (in no particular order ... )
- From Australia
- Raspberri Cupcakes - so good - I RSS blog posts to Googlereader
- One Green Acre
- Australia Entertains
- Cookbook Maniac
- Tummy Rumble aka @Reemski's I am obsessed with food - check out her bookshelf
- The Food Zeitgeist - I love their list of Australian foodie blogs
- Thoughts from Becca - Inside Cuisine
- The Journal of a Girl Who Loves Food
- Illawarra Food
- Jenius
- Not Quite Nigella
- A Delicious Year
- The Informal Foodie
- Abstract Gourmet
- Exclusively Food
- At My Table
- I Eat Therefore I Am
- Lib.er.tine
- Limes & Lycopene
- Souvlaki for the Soul
- The Food Blog
- Foodtrail
- Luke Nguyen's Vietnam & Mouthful from SBS
- Vanilla Slice (unrelated - pics from Ouyen's Great Australian Vanilla Slice Triumph)
- The Cookbook
- Beyond Australia
- HomeMades - "across the ditch" by an Indonesian born Kiwi
- Gusty Gourmet - another Kiwi foodie blog from "across the ditch"
- A Slice of Cherry Pie - UK - listed in world's 50 best foodie blogs
- Mainly Sweet - Delicious Delicious Delicious / DayDreamer Desserts
- Frances Mayes' Journal
- Parla Food - fr another Italian based American
- Binnurs Turkish Cookbook
- Turkish Cuisine
- Pizza Goon
- Phnomenon - from Cambodia
- LaoCook - a Laotian based in Spain
- Malaysia Best
- Basta Masarup
- Fuschia Dunlop
- Food.People.Want
- Shizuoka Gourmet - cycling gourmet from Japan - I also RSS these straight to Google Reader
- She, the Epicurious Girl - from Japan
- My Korean Kitchen
- Korean Food Recipes
- Maangchi
- The Spice Spoon - from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran & beyond
- Salt Shaker - from Argentina
- Refrigerator Soup Dot Com aka life is short - let's eat
- The Wednesday Chef - fr New York - also listed in world's 50 best foodie blogs
- Crocktease
- Cooking for Engineers - so very very different
These lists are eclectic - like my cook book collection at LibraryThing & even more so, my folders.
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