"blogger" news and stories

Many of us have food blogs, but for us, blogging is a recent development in our lives. Maybe you've been blogging a year. Maybe two years. For Meg Hourihan, blogging has been her career for a long time. In fact, she's the co-founder of Pyra Labs, created in 1999, the company that created the blogging software, blogger.That's right, the software about a gajillion of us use to create our own blogs. She's kind of a techie celebrity.

Meg has her own personal blog called megnut, on which she has been blogging about her daily life and interests which include food, travel, women's rights, and obviously, technology. Lately it seems, though, that megnut could be called "nutmeg," for all of the posting she's done on food.

Has Meg decided to fully join us in the food blogosphere? Cool! She does a lot of "news" items, posts recipes of things she cooks, and her photos are hosted separately on flickr. Pretty soon, everyone will have a food blog. Oh wait, except for my Mom and your Uncle Bob in Omaha, everyone does have a food blog.

William Conway, the blogger at Never Trust a Skinny Chef, was able to realize one of his foodie dreams this week: he met Alton Brown. Actually, he got to be an extra on an episode of Good Eats. Unlike a high-budget Hollywood-style production, Good Eats is low key and relatively low budget, William described it as a "school play affair." That didn't make it any less fun, though. Alton is a down-to-earth, smart and very likable guy. He was coming up with stories and lines for the script at the spur of the moment - even giving William himself a line to say in the show: "'There ain't no barracuda round here!"

To see William on TV and hear his line, look for the episode, which is about scallops, to air throughout the week on the Food Network!

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You've been reading our ramblings here at Slashfood for months now, so isn't it about time you get to know us? Over the next few weeks, we'll be playing 20 questions with our Slashfood bloggers, just so you can see what kind of insanity is cooking in our brains. And kitchens. We've already met Nick, Stefania, Andrew, and Joe. This week, we welcome a brand new blogger to Slashfood, Heather Craven.

Do you have a personal blog? 
I do. It mostly chronicles my daily ramblings about my three children and my skills, or sometimes the lack of, parenting them.

What is your day job, or rather, what do you do when you're not food blogging?
I chase my toddler, try to find matching socks for my brood and figure out healthy food choices for us all.

How long have you been blogging with slashfood and what is your favorite post?
I am spanking new on Slashfood. I have been toiling away on The Life Sciences blog since late 2005.

Do you have any non-food-related, non-blogging hobbies?
I live in the mountains of Colorado so we have a fairly active outdoor life. I love to mountain bike, hike and ski. I also love to paint and read.

Not every foodie does, but do you cook?
Not very successfully. I like to accessorize. I can decorate a mean table, make children's food look spectacular and bake fun goodies.

What is your most prized utensil/gadget in the kitchen?
I have a lovely new red tea kettle. Its happy presence has prompted me to buy a red toaster oven and I am pondering the purchase of a red garbage can to round out the color splash.

A Washington DC-area food blogger received notification from the attorney of Chef Carole Greenwood, of Buck's Fishing and Camping, insisting that he "cease and desist from showing any pictures that [he] may have taken of the food and facilities at said restaurant." Jason Storch, the blogger at DCfoodies.com, said that the chef stated during dessert that he would need to ask permission before using the photos for anything, but that he was not, as the attorney claimed "specifically told [by the chef] NOT to take any pictures."

The attorney is claiming that the restaurant and everything in it is the sole and confidential property of the owner, in this case, Ms. Greenwood. I have no problem with the attorney doing his job, but does Ms. Greenwood really expect that the interior of her restaurant be "confidential"? Given that there were no visible signs informing patrons that photography would not be prohibited, she probably should not have expected this. If  the management of an establishment does not want to permit photography, they need to clearly state that. Once a photo is taken, the owner of the photo can do with it what he will.

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Everything in Moderations's blogger, Donny B., was fired from his job following a post he wrote about Rachael Ray. His former place of employment was identified as Sur La Table.
The post concerned a book signing at the store. The post's title, "Rachael Ray is not God" was not intended to negatively reflect upon her, as much as it was intended to poke fun at the store patrons who oohed, aahed and snapped their camera phones wildly as the perky cook made her way through their midst.

Don even admits to being won over by her himself after a brief exchange (and his offer of a slice cheesecake to her) following her signing, so the post does not come off as particularly critical of Rachael. The problem the store had with the post was actually to be found in the comments section, according to the blogger.

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