(I’m still on hiatus, but I dropped the following post at the blogspot address, and figured that for consistency’s sake I should post here as well.)
Yikes! I’ve been spending so much time futzing around with a new design I forgot to put up new content. The other day I even went to Carrollwood Cafe & Deli (on the recommendation of the Urban Eater) to have something to write about. But instead of taking a photo of my sandwich and writing up a post I became so engrossed with tweaking some CSS I forgot to pay attention to my meal.
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Speaking of new designs, Jaden at Steamy Kitchen has just trotted out a super clean and sleek looking page. Hmmm, let’s see what that embed from ABC 7 looks like (never mind, the embed code doesn’t work). Here’s Jaden doing Vietnamese Iced Coffee and Asian Nachos on What’s for Dinner?
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Laura “the Mouth” Reiley mentions some new food websites. One, Urbanspoon, was kind enough to ask if I wanted Eating Tampa reviews to be a part of their site. Of course I agreed, and wished them luck, but I’m pretty wary of sites that scrape for content rather than have a dedicated editor. Results can be erratic. Also, no link luv from Laura who name drops (but doesn’t link to) Florida Food Hound (who moved to Gainesville last summer) and The Urban Eater (who is now a Culinary Sherpa) as the sorts of food blogs one might find on Urbanspoon. Alas, Eating Tampa must remain a part of the great unwashed “etc.”
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Sacre Bleu wine emailed me and offered an opportunity to try their wine after I asked “I wonder if the wine is any good?”
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Following close on the heels of the Tampa Tribune’s revamped food section, the St. Pete Times re-designs their own page.
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Jeff Houck meet the executive chef for the Florida governor and learns that Gov. Crist eats lots of salads.
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Brian Ries deals with food politics more than most other Tampa-area food writers. This post is prompted by the recent NYT article that suggests 27% of food available for consumption in the US ends up in the trash.
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The Culinary Sherpas visited the Food and Wine Festival and report back. Also here.
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The Tampa Locavore continues to photo-document his lunches. Stogie, eat more veggies!
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Sometime between now and Monday I’ll unveil the new page(s) and new URL (but, if you’re here, then you already know the new URL, and depending on when you’re reading this you may or may not be seeing the new design), in the meantime let’s all raise a glass of wine to American vintner Robert Mondavi. Salud.
thanks, i will try to eat more veggies.