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Nov 22, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 26 Comments

Three things that you don’t need to be a food blogger

1. An internet connection. Or at least, you don’t need an internet connection of your own. My first blog, Phnomenon, was almost entirely written without the internet at home. My workflow was to obsessively write and draft at home and when whatever I’d strung together approached a basic coherence, I’d

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Apr 27, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

All aboard the gravy train

There is enough beef waste in the US to fuel trains. Via The Guardian: US rail operator Amtrak may have given the term “cattle car” a whole new meaning with the first test of a biodiesel train that runs on beef byproducts. Operating on a $274,000 (£178,000) grant from the

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Apr 17, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments

Trolling as the food writing

Terry Durack over at the Age manages to both pit Sydney against Melbourne and suburb versus suburb by attempting to pick the worst suburb for eating in each city. There is good food to be found everywhere in Australia – it may be behind closed doors or in people’s backyards

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Apr 13, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Food blogger tip: How to block the worst diet ads from Adsense on your blog.

I both earn money from AdSense and pay Google for ad space – so seeing a terrible looking ad on my blogs and getting exposure hurts. If you do visit a couple of Australian food blogs, eventually you’ll be served up with this diet ad – as Simon mentions over

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Apr 11, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 38 Comments

Getting my focus back.

The Australian food bloggers’ conference (which I’ve also written about over at SBS) seems to have had the effect of lighting a gigantic fire under the collective arses of Australia’s food bloggers. I feel like I’m back on the blogging bandwagon and have a decent reason to post again. The

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Apr 06, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Maybe people aren’t drinking it because it tastes like shit

There’s a short article over at The Age mapping the decline of the big Australian beers as a failure of their marketing. Their reason for the fall from grace of VB and Carlton: Image is also one of the reasons why there has been strong growth in mainstream craft beers

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Apr 02, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Last Month on SBS – March 2010

I also write over at SBS’ food blog, Mouthful. Here is the last month of posts: Eels for Jesus The Australian Food Bloggers’ Conference 2010 The perfect Australian burrito What happened to the future of food? The Tabouleh War

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Apr 02, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

The new layout

After deliberating over food blog templates for a good six months, I’ve decided just to make a change to the layout completely on a whim rather than putting in the hard work of redesigning the site. My only gripe with the previous template was the way that it treated short

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