Culiblog FINALIST in 2 Int’l Food Blog Award categories!
December 22, 2004
Dear Readers,
Thank you so much for nominating culiblog in the International Food Blog Awards hosted by the Accidental Hedonist. Your support has placed culiblog in the finals in two (2) categories; writing and humor.
Between NOW and midnight on the 31st of December (Pacific Standard Time) you can vote for your favourite culi weblog at the following urls. The urls below will bring you directly to the polls for these categories and not for the entire poll. If you want to vote for the other categories follow the Accidental Hedonist link. You’ll have to do a bit of navigating if you want to vote on all of the categories. It’s voting information design that only a blogger could love.
To vote in the category of Best Food Blog Humor click here.
To vote in the category of Best Food Blog Writing click here.
Here’s the competition:
For Humor my competitors are:
Amateur Gourmet
The Food Whore
Meat Henge
The Passionate Cook
For the category Writing my competitors are:
Chez Pim
Chocolate and Zucchini
Orangette
Shiokadelicious
I am honoured to be signalled among these excellent blogs, and that wouldn’t have happened without your enormous support in the nominating phase. Please take 5 minutes to vote in the next few days and let your voice be heard in blogland. Thank you for voting for culiblog!
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Moist towellettes inhibit finger lickage
As usual the package is better than the product because these moist towellettes inhibit finger lickage. Still, it’s a great holiday present for under 5 euro for people I don’t know. I hope that the receiver of this fine gift won’t take it personally.
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A grain of salt: holiday gifts for under 5 euro
December 21, 2004
In just 3 days I will be one of the extended friends of family at an English Xmas celebration. This could be just the chance I’ve been waiting for to initiate a salt and fleur de sel tasting. It’s the thought that counts, right?
Fleur de sel (salt flower) is the term for the “young” crystals that form naturally on the surface of salt evaporation ponds. They are hand harvested under specific weather conditions by traditional paludiers (salt farmers). Purists would say that true fleur de sel could only come from the Guérande region of France, on the isle of Ré. Impurists know that salt is harvested all over the world and that the purists are just trying to market their particular brand of salt.
Fleur de sel is considered to be a ‘finishing salt’, a salt that is both rich in regional flavour and not too concentrated and therefore the perfect salt for sprinkling on salads and steamed vegetables. I have read (but have a hard time believing) that the term fleur denotes the violet-like aroma of the ripening crystals in the ponds. If this were true I’m sure the French would not hestiate to call the crystals violets de sel.
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