You may have noticed a few changes on the blog recently. Here’s what’s going on: Updates I updated the category titles and am working behind the scenes to make sure posts are correctly categorized. I took down the Foodbuzz ad block when my contract expired at the end of September. I want to earn something to pay for all the work I put into this blog but I’m not sure whether ads are the right [...]

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of recording an hour long radio episode about niche blogging with Erica Pryor of Digital 411 and Andrea Ratulowski of Food Embrace. We talked about blogging platforms, working with PR agents and advertisers, social networking, audience and more. I loved chatting about technology in the professional Talktainment studio. Listen here to the free full niche blogging episode as an mp3 or on iTunes. It took me a few days [...]

Kim Moldofsky of MomImpact is offering a Type A Parent conference pass to one random blogger who shares a six word story or haiku. Maybe one of these entries will be my ticket to meet Kim again! Sessions, networking, real food, brewery haven. ‘Course I want to go!   Best friends are moving to Asheville. Combo visit and the conference?   Dart-throwing monkey, please pick my name!  

I did it! I posed every day in November as part of NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month. It was a challenge indeed, especially through our bourbon country vacation and Thanksgivings when I otherwise would have skipped posting for a few days. I had no writer’s block and felt no lack of topics to prevent me from writing every day all year. I posted 33% more often than normal, writing 30 days of posts versus 20 [...]

When I started this blog, other local food bloggers welcomed me into their fold like pioneers seeking friendly companions on the new frontier.  We read and comment on each others’ work and pass around opportunities and news.  We give each other link love and retweets, assets barely defined a mere two years ago. So it was that when a publicist for David Tanis, co-chef of Chez Panisse, inquired whether some bloggers would like to meet [...]

Please vote for this post to win a conference ticket. Simply click on @racheltayse is this poll. Thanks! Hounds in the Kitchen is growing not unlike the edible garden in our backyard.  I planted seeds in education, writing, and speaking from this blog.  Some have borne fruit already.  Some activities seem to reseed themselves, providing reward after reward while others are rife with weedy challenges. The garden is getting a little unruly.  It requires enough [...]