Olive Magazine, one of the top foodie magazines in the UK, is a great supporter of blogs and the writers behind them. I mean they even mentioned my little spittoon a month or so back; so they have gotta be jolly good chaps!

The May issue recommends the 'most funny, useful and opinionated Brit food blogs'

• Baking For Britain - 'as it says on the tin , lots of baking'
• Culinary Hags - 'these two food lovers eat out and report in'
• Gastronomy Domaine - 'frank comment on recipe tests, food parcels and restaurants'
• Jam Faced - 'he cooks, he eats, and he writes about it'
• Nordljus - 'beautiful photography and lots of recipes with comments'
• Becks and Posh - 'the food-related musings of a Brit foodie in San Francisco'

 

Who says there is nothing great about British food! If the diverse range of British food bloggers is anything to go by the UK is really leading the food world, from historical English recreations, thoughtful comment through to recipes from the Ottoman Empire...

1. Cooking With Ginger has a great rant on what to eat, or rather, when what we are supposed to eat one day is countered by some other revelation the next.
2. Anne of Baking For Britain may not be one of the most frequent posters, but by heck laddie her writing is well worth waiting for. I love the mix of historical facts and adapted recipes. The latest compares homemade Sedgemoor Easter Cakes and a pack purchased from M&S.
3. Eating Leeds has AT LAST become a proper Englishman in actually liking custard - and seems to be a master at making it too.
4. The English Patis has posted one of those 'I must make this' recipes, a Spiced Apple Cake.
5. Fiordizucca Goes English is keeping it local with a Nettle Tart. Do nettles grow anywhere outside Europe, it's something we should all know?
6. Sqeezeweasle writing as Gastronomy Domaine got a mention in Olive magazine, but didnt boast about it like I did!
7. A new blog to me - Rustic - details how to recreate Hunkar Begendi and Tas Kabab which is basically lamb and aubergine from her Turkish homeland's Ottoman past.
8. Finally Johanna has been out partying and plying welcome party-people with Tomato & Pesto mini-Galettes.