Here’s a little video from Tommy Edison, a blind guy who shows us once again that blind people really don’t have the limitations many think they do! I know a lot of people that say they can’t cook … tell me that after watching him cook! #Respect
But wait … there’s more!
Bonjwing Lee, known to most as The Ulterior Epicure, is, what my good friend calls, a super blogger. Dude be everywhere. His eating budget is larger than most people’s living budget and he’s got the food porn to prove it. Plus, he travels … UH LOT and he’s contributed to the pretty awesome Bluestem cookbook, which you can snag off Amazon!
Today, UE published his best of 2011 restaurant edition. Be warned: it’s a jealousy inducing list of culinary wet dreams. Towards the end of the post, The UE fired off his 2012 Bucket List. That alone will bring many a foodie to salivate.
Why do I mention this? Well, a) it’s of general interest to anyone who loves food and b) both Empire State South and Miller Union showed up on his To-Do List for 2012. Score ATLANTA!
Thanks to the incredibly awesome tax credits bestowed upon the Georgia film industry, Atlanta is a hot spot of celebrity sightings and the UE is perhaps the most noteworthy restaurant blogger on the interwebs. While I’ll admit that more people are likely to care about Bustin Jieber than Tony Bourdain, and I am long since past the point where I get nervous meeting someone famous, I know at least a few people of the female persuasion who are kind of excited by the idea of Lee weaving through our city.
So if I were to get all happy dance in the same way an 80s mallrat would at a Debbie Gibson, or Deborah Gibson, or whatever the hell she’s calling herself these days, concert … the UE would certainly be worthy of my teenage dream screams. Plus, Lee’s initial motivations for remaining anonymous line up with why I still try to be, so I have very much appreciated his looking glass. Plus, he writes like a boss.
As for his expectations for ESS & MU, well – I’m sure y’all know I’m not exactly elated by my visits to either, but I look forward to hearing what the Ulterior Epicure will have to say should he indeed make good on his wishes.
[via The UE blog]
Consider this post a big middle finger directed at an unidentified party. According to RestaurantsATL, the super awesome mega-sized King of Pops mural is apparently gone, up and vanished like a fart in the wind. The mural was located in the parking lot of Buddy’s Gas Station, which has long served as home base for The King. Smack dab in the middle of Poncey-Highland, this mural served as a call to arms … it said: “Stop, look at me … there is deliciousness to be had.”
It was fun, it was colorful, and it made me happy and it made the people happy! According to RestaurantsATL, this is the work of our fabulous city government. They are of course, enforcing some very serious, totally legitimate city ordinance. Interlude:
Gas Station Employee: I’m starting to picking up your sarcasm.
Richard Hayden: Well, I should hope so, because I’m laying it on pretty thick.
Mayor Kasim Reed (@KasimReed) happens to be a pretty big supporter of street food … so I hope this catches his attention and something is done to restore order in the universe. If something doesn’t happen in the near future – don’t be surprised if an online petition shows up on this blog!
On a more positive note, I recently noticed that KoP is now at Sheik Burritos … you can get all your KOP news via their twitter feed and their website.
UPDATE: Steven Carse (the King himself) will be on TV tonight – you should be able to catch him on Channel 36 during the 10 o’clock showing and 11Alive sometime between 11pm and Midnight.
[image with permission from RestaurantsATL]
Ladies and gentlefolks, foodies of all ages, I share with you some work from Snack To The Future:
If the samples above haven’t led on – the designer behind S2TF takes movie posters and gives them a good working over with some foodie love. It’s not updated frequently, but when it is … it’s pretty awesome.
I actually have a non-food tumblr myself; but, Snack To The Future is just one of several food tumblers you should check out (along with IntoNoRes+, FuckYouYelper, ThePriceHike, and FancyFastFood amongst the many fabulous ones).
Cheers y’all!
Even though this website is just a little online food journal, I try to publish blog posts regularly. Thanks to a handful of blog tools, I’m able to publish content pretty efficiently. These various software programs have become invaluable assets in my daily life, so I think it’s about time I wrote a guide on how to blog like a pro.
Regardless of whether or not I’m writing some opus about a restaurant or a quick little news blurb or even just posting some funny video, I use most, if not all, of these tools when creating a story. What’s particularly amazing about these blog tools is that they are all free. Perhaps even more amazing is that I have yet to find a significantly superior paid alternative for any of these programs.
Oh, a few quick notes before we get into the details. These are all desktop programs, so for you lovers of all things online, well – you’re gonna have to get over that and install these on your computer. Also, while a couple of these are platform agnostic (aka – you can find them for Linux, Mac, & or PC), the important ones are Windows based tools.
However, if you happen to have a Mac, you may want to look into something like Parallels ($80 – website) or VirtualBox (Free – website), which will allow you to run windows programs inside of the Mac OS. For you Linux nerds, I suspect that you already know about WineHQ (website), but just in case, that’s the Linux alternative to VB and Parallels.
And with that, on with the list …
In June of 2008, Neil Pasricha launched his 1000 Awesome Things website. I, along with much of the internet addicted world, was turned onto his site soon thereafter. The backstory and premise is this: Neil was reeling in the after effects of some serious emotional gut punches. Rather than wallow in his sorrow any more than he had to, Neil decided to pick up the pieces and share positive tidbits with the world. If you want to hear the story, you can watch Pasricha’s TED.com talk.
I think it’s fair to say that the number of blogs that cover (at least in part) some aspect of the Atlanta restaurant scene has skyrocketed since I started this food journal back in December ‘08. In fact, UrbanSpoon has 190 different blogs listed on its Atlanta Blog Leaderboard. Though many of those are admittedly defunct or based outside of ATL, I think it’s safe to say that we have an active community of online pontificators, pundits, comedians, and critics.
As the space becomes more and more crowded, I find myself regularly pruning my data feed to expunge low hanging fruit and information I just can’t seem to find the time for. However, every once in awhile, I do add to my cadre of information sources. The latest addition is a site entitled “The Saucy Server.” [website/@TheSaucyServer]
A new website/blog is on the scene and it goes by the name of ThirstySouth.com. While I’m going to bet most of y’all have a knack for the obvious … in case you don’t: Thirsty South is dedicated to all things drink. They have an excellent photographer on staff and have already hit up Perrine’s Wine Shop … the best wine shop in town … which also happens to be the newest wine shop in town. Check out the post and tell me the blog doesn’t have mad potential.
Anyway, the site will cover wine, beer, libations & cocktails, coffee, tea, and pretty much anything else that takes liquid form. I think there’s a lot of potential for this thing to go big … so get in early! I’ll leave you with this lifted photo … good stuff … good stuff! Don’t forget to follow their facebook page and the twitter feed for all the good tids and bits.
Ashley Hall of Third Coast Byways (link) is the definitive Southern, and I mean that in the best sense of the term. This transplanted Birmingham native has been in our fine city for some time and established herself as a grape hound with Quality Wines and with Kermit Lynch. But her time in the wine industry has come and gone (at least for now), and as we all know … idle hands are the food fanatics treasure.
Motivated by her sense of civic duty, this belle has been slinging stories from Mobile to Biloxi and beyond for the past few months. We all know what’s going on down there in the Gulf, but Third Coast Byways offers a near daily update of things from a more personalized perspective.
Unlike yours truly, Ms. Hall has a background in journalism and is a really good writer. Helped by her deep knowledge of wine and her overall enthusiasm for food, Hall is helping to document the destruction of Apalachicola’s food eco-system and culture.
While the stories aren’t always the most happy go lucky, Hall’s charm seems to come through time and time again. She’s got a thankless job, but along with the Southern Foodways Alliance, she’s documenting something that needs to be followed. I highly suggest you start reading, it’s blogging with a conscience but not politics.
Sometimes, I have a very good explanation for how and why I stumble upon a website. Other times, I have no idea how I happen upon some of the gems I hit. Such is the case with the blog I’m High On Cooking (link to the tumblr). The blog tumblr itself is a bit of a photo-journal from a guy who happens to be serving as a farmer’s apprentice. At least, that’s what the slogan implies.
While the content is really excellent, what makes I’m High On Cooking a true winner is the vibrant photography of farm life and the inclusion of great videos. [blogger's aside … this site is encouraging me to steal Papa Buddha’s Lumix G1!!!]. It’s also chalk full of recipes … mmmm! I must warn you, this isn’t a site for the faint of heart. It’s a blog that evokes every essence of the farm to table movement, which means chickens are harmed in the making of some posts. I always encourage people who eat meat (or any animal for that matter) to see the butchering process … when done right, it’s done out of love. Coincidentally, in reading through the backlog, I found this awesome food porn on everybody’s favorite new burger joint.
Last but not least, I really wish I could snag some photography for you, but since I don’t have his permission … that’s not going to happen here. What I can do is embed this video … it’s awesome:
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