FeedReel on Food and Drink

The more you look, the more you find!

Since FeedReel’s launch a month ago, our list of food and drink blogs in the UK has grown from just over a hundred to over 200.

We now list, search and scan 129 132 general food blogs (from good simple home cooking to the completely eclectic), 10 blogs about eating out, 12 farming blogs, 16 wine blogs, 5 beer blogs and one lonely cider blog. (And several apparently inactive, but still online, blogs.)

Newly Found Favourites

Here’s a selection of recently unearthed gems, with a strong theme of exotic influences on cooking in the UK. (Blog authors’ taglines are in italics, my brief observations below.)

• Andy Hayler’s Restaurant Guide by Andy Hayler in London
  “a weekly food blog”
  Thorough and authoritative restaurant reviewing
• Chachi’s Kitchen by various authors in the UK
  “Ismaili Recipes – This blog contains our family recipes”
  Inspiring Ismaili cooking with Swahili, Lugandi, English, Italian, Irish and Pakistani influences
• Coffee and Vanilla by Margot in the UK
  “euro-caribbean food blog”
  Good simple recipes drawing on Polish, Dominican, English and other influences
• The Distracted Housewife by Cath in Aberystwyth, Wales
  “I love to cook and enjoy preparing good food for us to share. Whether it’s a simple bowl of soup or a fabulously gooey pudding, it’s always made with love.”
  Great family food from Wales
• Domestic Goddess in Training by Jules in Derbyshire
  “Bright, blue-eyed newlywed and domestic goddess…….in training”
  A local food enthusiast acquiring divine cooking skills
• The Good Stuff by Stockton in Leeds
  “A celebration of good food and drink in Yorkshire, The UK and beyond”
  Thoughtful food experiences
• The London Review of Breakfasts by Malcolm Eggs and others in London
  “No eggs – no omelettes! (Jose Mourinho)”
  A studious but irreverent investigation into good places to eat breakfast
• Mrs Bs Baking by Nic in East London
  “The queen of baking cakes, cookies, muffins, biscuits and all things delicious!”
  All about baking
• paulagoddard.com by Paula Goddard
  News about wine and everything from Marmite to musical stoves
• Peckish? by Robert Macrae in Manchester
  “Fancy a right good whinge and a cuppa tea?”
  Discursive foodie diversions
• Seychelles food sensations by Helda in London
  “My london childhood recollections of food from parents of the seychelles”
  Bringing the tastes of the Seychelles to London

It’s a daily problem: how to find or make the good food (and drink) that’s an essential part of life.

What? Which? Where? How?

• What’s in season?
• Which wine is best?
• Where to buy it?
• How to make the best of good ingredients?

It’s even harder away from home. Eating out can be a sublime delight, the highlight of a day, or a sorry disappointment that leaves a lingering bad taste in the mouth and soul.

• Where to eat?

Finding Good Food

Happily, the web offers myriad resources to steer us towards good food. From extensive databases of recipes and restaurant reviews to the serendipity of bloggers’ reports on their experiences in the kitchen, at the shops and eating out.

Specialist sites and the mainstream media’s online presence have the edge on consistency of reporting, but bloggers offer something more direct and personal.

FeedReel’s food search draws on the full range of resources for a wide variety of views on an increasingly comprehensive selection of subjects. The search covers over 200 specialist websites and blogs, all focused on food and drink in the UK.

Answering Questions

Follow the links above and you’ll find many answers to these pressing questions.

More specific questions are answered too.

• Are you looking for a butcher in Bristol?
• A restaurant in Norwich?
• Or a good pub in Cumbria?
• Wondering what to do with some fresh figs?
• A saddle of lamb?
• Or some freshly picked ceps?

Whatever your question about food and drink, there’s a good chance it’s answered by one of the UK’s food websites. FeedReel’s food search hopes to help you find that answer.

You don’t even have to visit FeedReel to search. Just click on the Add to Google button to add FeedReel’s search to your Google homepage.

For anyone with an interest in food and drink (isn’t that everyone?), the web is an increasingly exciting source of ideas, stimulation and information.

Every day, over 30 fresh articles are posted on over 100 UK food blogs, with over a dozen more on 20-odd UK beer, wine and cider blogs. Numerous specialist websites are constantly adding new content and much of the old mainstream media’s writing on food is also available online.

The only problem is keeping up. It’s all too easy to miss an article on your favourite food and all too difficult tracking down the best information when you’re looking for a particular recipe or the low-down on a restaurant.

FeedReel is here to help. We keep a close eye on feeds from UK food blogs and websites, collating constantly updated summaries of the latest food and drink writing and news.

And if you’re looking for something specific, try our Food Search, which indexes over 200 carefully chosen UK food blogs and websites.

Let us know what you think. We’d like FeedReel to grow and develop to meet your needs, making food writing and resources on the web ever more accessible and useful.