Food Bloggers

[trueblue222]

Can I talk about my love for Miguel Barclay? Actually in the last week I've bought books by Jamie x 3 and a vegan Lucy Watson one too
I'm vegan and I'm not rich which is why the Miguel books have been brilliant for me. I've cooked from scratch every night for the last week.

I'm basically buying books by anyone who is not Jack Monroe

(I have no tea).

 

[theleagueofgentlemen]

I follow Elly Pear and thought she seemed ok. I’ve got a couple of her books and I’d say the recipes I’ve tried have been about 60% good/40% disappointing. I’d love to know what happened with her and Gizzi.

Gizzi always comes across as one of those people who had a 'Super super bestest friend' for a while a then just bins them off tbf.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Thread to discuss any and all food bloggers… Martha, Felicity et al.

Personally, I love Felicity so I suppose it doesn’t have to be moany all the time .

Any tea gratefully received.

 

[Tabitha D]

I like Nicola Miller, especially when she’s written about food from different countries and cultures (e.g. her recent trips to Venice and Greece). She’s worth a follow on Twitter/Instagram.
Also Emily Nunn, who is US-based and writes about salad. (Her blog/newsletter is called The Department of Salad). Lots of lovely recipes for every type of salad you can think of, plus “salad adjacent” stuff like dressings.

 

[Showmethemoonie]

Milli Taylor is great, I’ve met her and her mum and they’re both so lovely. She’s so kind and has really helped me out in the past. And that woman can COOK!

 

[Maladyabound]

Love Felicity - just finished one more croissant which was a v enjoyable read. Whenever I need to try out a recipe of something I've never done before I always try her perfect recipes first and they have always worked!!

I used to like MDL but she got a bit much in lockdown living. Excessively braggy about random stuff? I bought my husband a subscription to sourdough online school- tbf the bread tutorials and guidance were good. But the other stuff we tried mainly using up sourdough starter... None of it worked properly and the focaccia was a disaster

I follow lots of cooks and bakers on insta and my pet hate (with any influencer) is undisclosed ads for the free stuff- love the boywhobakes but he has been sneaking them in a bit too often for my liking!

 

[notdollybutmolly]

Posh Monroeing

do You mean monroe bergdorf?

Ravneet is apparently very full on/borderline manic in real life. I’ve enjoyed some of her recipes but she does come across as a bit much

I hear the opposite! My husband is friends with her man and his friends and apparently she’s really shy and the full-on-ness is just an act or an image she’s built up!!!
She is absolutely beautiful isn’t she,!?,

 

[grammarofskin]

Really not sure why I continue to pay for the pleasure of seeing MDL completely ignore the members of her “sourdough school” month after month, then come back (usually after about three holidays in a row) complaining about everything and advertising yet another supperclub.

Looking forward to her not posting any new recipes prior to the supperclub because she’s “too busy” and then immediately after it’s finished she’ll complain about how she’s over-exerted herself, go on another holiday and disappear for another month or two. And so on, and so on.

The recipes aren’t even good, always contain ingredients that are impossible to find (from her friends/bought on holiday) and weirdly always feed about 64 people so you have to scale it down massively.

Argh. Rant over.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

She’s being absolutely lovely this morning.

Slamming someone who dared to order a decaf espresso from pret. Likened it to drinking seedlip.

Piss off Martha. And piss off to her followers who called him all kinds of horrid names, some beginning with “n”.

Nice that you can jolly off to Italy and then jolly off somewhere else as soon as you come back and then have the nerve to say that people who order drink that you don’t like “look like they come from Hull”.

Go and join your luvvies and help the world .

 

[Ss-ldn]

Love Felicity - just finished one more croissant which was a v enjoyable read. Whenever I need to try out a recipe of something I've never done before I always try her perfect recipes first and they have always worked!!

I used to like MDL but she got a bit much in lockdown living. Excessively braggy about random stuff? I bought my husband a subscription to sourdough online school- tbf the bread tutorials and guidance were good. But the other stuff we tried mainly using up sourdough starter... None of it worked properly and the focaccia was a disaster

I follow lots of cooks and bakers on insta and my pet hate (with any influencer) is undisclosed ads for the free stuff- love the boywhobakes but he has been sneaking them in a bit too often for my liking!

She went a bit mad with the sourdough “trash” recipes.
Some seemed to be just for the sake of it. Her crumpet recipe is actively not nice IMO. Far better to make properly yeasted crumpets.

Ravneet is apparently very full on/borderline manic in real life. I’ve enjoyed some of her recipes but she does come across as a bit much

 

[Gingercream]

I follow Elly Pear and thought she seemed ok. I’ve got a couple of her books and I’d say the recipes I’ve tried have been about 60% good/40% disappointing. I’d love to know what happened with her and Gizzi.

 

[Showmethemoonie]

I like Nicola Miller, especially when she’s written about food from different countries and cultures (e.g. her recent trips to Venice and Greece). She’s worth a follow on Twitter/Instagram.
Also Emily Nunn, who is US-based and writes about salad. (Her blog/newsletter is called The Department of Salad). Lots of lovely recipes for every type of salad you can think of, plus “salad adjacent” stuff like dressings.

love both of these! Their substack newsletters are great.

 

[grammarofskin]

interesting re the 300 drop. Can you screenshot the stuff you need and then quit? You’ve definitely paid for the content and she’s not delivered what she promised

I think I will! It’ll feel really nice to stop paying this (clearly very well off already with her giant house in one of the nicest parts of East London..) woman do basically nothing in return.

I also subscribe to Nicola Lamb’s Kitchen Projects newsletter and difference is staggering - great recipes every single week, clearly loads of work going into putting the newsletter together, recipe testing, etc. and really engaged and friendly with her audience.

Meanwhile, MDL is stealing a living..

 

[Walkdengirl]

I do like Felicity cloake, she comes across as a nice person

 

[blurstoftimes]

£75 per person and according to her latest post she has 81 to feed? That's just over 6 grand for one weekend with no rent to pay,no vat, no staff (I remember she previously used volunteers?). Food costs are probs around £500, even if they were £1000 that's still a good taking.

And all she does is copy other peoples dishes!

i’ve said before but i went to her supper club pre-covid and aside from some amazing chicken wings it was extremely underwhelming. one dish was a single tempura perilla leaf!

 

[depository]

Re: Elly Pear, I always had a big of second hand embarrassment when she was hanging out with Gizzi and Gizzi’s famous mates - always seemed a bit try hard and the unpopular girl at school being allowed to hang around the cool kids for a bit. Would love to know why she and Gizzi had a falling out - Gizzi posted on IG about her being a bit single white female (well I think everyone assumed it was about Elly) but would love to know the full story.

Does anyone have any opinions on Jonathan Nunn? (Demarionunn on Twitter who created Vittles). I do find him funny and I like the fact he’s not afraid to publicly take shots at people in the food world, but it’s only ever people who don’t mix in his circles so a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. I’ve seen on Twitter a few quite well known people in the food world who openly can’t stand him.

Anyone got any goss on Jonathan Downey? I gather he’s a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work - threatening to have people beaten up etc. I’ve been at a few dinners in the past where him and Gizzi have been dining together. I think they share a few extra curricular activities

 

[SharkAttack]

Down to 684 followers now, not surprising as she’s posted one barely a recipe recipe in the last 2 months.
Guessing her endless woes are health related, given this

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Don’t you remember the attention seeking pictures from her hospital bed in Spain without saying why she was there?

Irritating Facebook Hun attention-seeking habit IMO. Either say what’s wrong or don’t post the ‘poor me in hospital’ thirsty pics in the first place.

 

[Rekyavikgirl]

Agree re some of MDL’s recipes being for the sake of it. Sometimes I laugh out loud at the stuff she cooks, as the interminable list of ingredients is mad, and ill thought out. It’s like the cooking version of when people try to use lots of long words to look clever.

Posh Monroeing

 

[Rekyavikgirl]

I wondered about this too! I know Adam Handling isn’t particularly well liked in the industry but I’m not sure about the cling film reference…

He likes wanking over clingfilmed sex workers

 

[SharkAttack]

Totally here for a food bloggers thread and also think Felicity is great. Maybe we could make it wine bloggers too? I love Knackered Mother and Victoria Moore.

Interesting re MDL and her half hints. I wonder what’s up. She must want attention or she’d keep it quiet!