When Jill Fergus’ kids began swimming competitively, she realized how nutrition, performance, growth, overall health and emotional well-being must be in sync. The recipe developer/food stylist-photographer and editor dove into feeding that passion with a blog feedtheswimmers.com and Instagram album Feed the Swimmers.
There’s a place for messy food like sloppy Joes, saucy wings and Frito pie. Then there’s The Art of Plating, where presentation woos eyes and appetites. We have a feeling these masterpieces, destined for dining, will never make it to the Louvre.
How many of you credit grandma with your first cooking and baking sessions…sifting, stirring, rolling? Jocelyn Delk Adams of Grandbaby Cakes is one such grandma-inspired cook turned author/TV expert/food and travel blogger. The “TODAY” show tastemaker has been seen on “The Rachael Ray Show,” Food Network and Cooking Channel. Adams doles out tidbits of advice, too, just like grandma.
Pinch of Yum Instagrammer Lindsay Ostrom doles out way more than a pinch of yummy comfort foods, including plenty of hearty eats for vegetarians. She’s recipe surfed and found winners such as Skinnytaste’s Crock-Pot beef ragu with pappardelle. No one will miss the meat in hearty vegetarian shepherd’s pie. Lunch preppers can fix a week’s worth of spicy chicken and rice. She’s okay with showing a sweet side, as well, swearing her “modern scotcheroos” made with five ingredients and minimal refined sugars are the first to go off the holiday dessert tray. Pinch us so we’ll know this album’s not just a delicious dream.
Hello? Patrick in Toronto calling to Feed My Phone. According to this PR strategist, smartphones hunger for gingerbread men riding croissants, cute and colorful doughnut bites, burrata pizza and aperitivo -- and a gourmet gallery of other photogenic eats. Click -- and wish you could lick as well as like.
Get unstuck. Lifestyle expert and Food Network chef/television personality Mandy Landefeld throws out new ideas for home, travel, kitchen and Friday cocktailing on Sumptuous Living. As if her wheelhouse isn’t full enough, she’s also an interior designer and chef who blogs at sumptuousliving.net.
Celebrate food, whole and pure, with Kathryne Taylor at Cookie and Kate. Relieve picture-induced cravings by clicking over to find recipes at cookieandkate.com or order Taylor’s cookbook, “Love Real Food.” Oh, we wish her happy dog Cookie could jump off the screen and lick faces while we’re bow-wow-browsing.
Breakfast Criminals follows a mantra well worth chewing, “…how you start your day is how you live your life.” So why open the day by opening a cardboard box when you can fix raspberry lemon nice cream, a gut-friendly açaì-cashew kefir bowl or a beety magenta-hued, hormone-pleasing schmear of almond cheese on toast. And remember to breathe and set a daily intention…before caffeine-ing for the day. Peace, bro.
Someone’s in the kitchen with SouthKitch, posting recipes, stories, kitchenware and a kitchen-caboodle of community. Like it? Gotta have it? Shop SouthernKitchen.com. We’re smitten with the Texas-shaped waffle as we lift up those deep in the heart of Harvey-stricken Houston.
At Handle the Heat, Tessa Arias melds the science of baking and lots of chocolate into sinfully delicious recipes. Eyeballing decadent lava brownies, cookie butter brownie ice cream sandwiches, peanut butter cheesecake-stuffed chocolate cupcakes and chocolate pudding pie has us frantically tapping her blog link to abscond with the recipes
The Whole Food Diary documents a California-based husband, wife and baby team’s journey through the world of good-for-you foods. Rustic pizza with sprouted spelt pizza crust, a homemade tortilla and Hawaiian-style short rib taco bar and an iced mocha refresher boasting creamy homemade oat milk turn clean house in gratifying, satisfying ways.
By Jove, those British GPB dramas and documentaries based in England have us scanning the isle’s idyllic countryside for traditional tea-worthy nibbles like rosewater and cardamom biscuits and globally inspired dishes of today’s Great Britain, Persian lamb and fregola, for example. Our fingers landed on LindsaysFeast, an album royally loaded with food stories and photos from a cook and writer living the English country life. Cheerio!
Hungry Girls Do It Better and they’re really good at uncovering awesome Atlanta eats. And, such willpower. Imagine, prioritizing camera ahead of fork…capturing the essence of a Dolce Italian pizza or Corso Coffee croissant before devouring the subject.
Round and round she goes on Everything Bagels, which goes round and round the mind boggling question of “What can you do with a bagel?” This album has all the answers in full-of-color photos. Blue (not blueberry) bagels for Hanukkah, the red and green of a NYC Christmas bagel, heavenly bacon on a bagel and bagels oozing truffle grilled cheese are just the start…and as you know, bagels are circles so they just keep going.
Liking the mantra, “Live deliciously, one plate at a time.” Follow Claire Thomas and her appetizing adventures on KitchyKitchen. Download her podcast, “A Time and a Plate,” for audible edible, err, listening on the go.
Vivian Howard calls the Tarheel State home, but the chef behind Kinston, North Carolina’s Chef and the Farmer plowed her way to Atlanta’s Gunshow in October to share her talents as guest chef in chef Kevin Gillespie’s Hired Guns series. She’s on the road again on a wild food truck tour promoting her first cookbook, “Deep Run Roots.”
See what’s cooking in The New York Times Food section @NYTFood. There’s a bit of everything delish here including trends, cozy-up foods, recipes from renowned chefs (Mark Bittman’s roasted Brussels sprouts) and gorgeous gourmet finds like a delicate Chinese tart at Violet’s Bake Shoppe in Queens.
Is Samantha Lee a food fairy? Appears so because as she admits, “I cook. Kids eat.” Her magic? Samantha makes food tell a story, say, “camping under a starry sky” food art for National Sandwich Day. Halloween, she warned of the spooky dangers lurking around the corner…Yikes! Vegetables gone batty.
To live simpler, happier and healthier in the kitchen – that’s what home cooks seek, and @cooksmarts is passionate about helping. Feast eyes on images of sautéed garlicky shrimp, stuffed vegetarian sweet potatoes, chicken miso ramen with soft-boiled egg, Japanese beef curry and a delicious Niçoise salad, to name a few. Then click over to cooksmarts.com to take control of your kitchen and make these at home with a meal plan subscription service boasting grocery lists, how-to videos, prep-ahead advice, diet options and more.
Life and Thyme documents food culture around the globe. Peek at Instagram or watch “The Migrant Kitchen,” a life-and-times docu-series, here.
