Guest Bloggers

How is Food Blogging different from other forms of blogging? There are 33,000 food blogs out there. So, how do you set your food blog apart and get your little piece of the food blog pie? Here are some tips for building and growing a successful blog.

Guest Blogger Steve Christensen, aka “The Ice Cream Bloke,” offers a bit of history about the origins of National Ice Cream Month and has a suggestion for celebrating the occasion.

The Food Channel’s Chef Dennis Pitchford “enjoys” a scorpion from the bottom of a Mezcal bottle at the International Wine, Spirits and Beer Event at the 2009 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago.

On the night before the industry’s biggest restaurant show in Chicago, IL, food manufacturers, media, and suppliers came out in force for the annual “Color Party”. Themes of better value, more innovation, and closer relationships to customers prevailed.

Here’s another food blog we like a lot: Laura’s Best Recipes. Our featured recipe from Laura on The Food Channel right now is her Sausage, Wild Mushroom and Sourdough Stuffing. Just in time for Thanksgiving.

If your food budget is feeling squeezed these days (and isn’t everyone’s?) you really should check out the blog, 5dollardinners.com. Erin, who calls herself $5 Dinner Mom, can show you how to stretch your family food dollar and still eat well.

Nervous about entertaining? Worried that something will catch fire in the kitchen and guests will be forced to evacuate as your pot roast sets off the smoke alarm? Fear not! Judy at will calm your nerves.

Imagine a room full of food bloggers, laptops in place, at the Martha Stewart Show. Well, one of The Food Channel followers on Twitter, Deborah Smith, can do more than imagine it – she lived it. Deborah was invited to be part of the audience…read on!

The Kitten Lounge is a blog site that covers the “casual glam lifestyle,” which happens to include some pretty glam delicious recipes. Here’s an excerpt and a link to a recipe for Avocado Squash.

Today’s Guest Blogger is a mother of three living in Philadelphia who’s been clipping coupons since she was 18. Now she blogs about coupons and myriad other ways moms can save money.