Feed Your Feed!: 12 Food-Related Twitter Accounts to Follow
Let’s face it: it’s a big, big Twitter-verse out there, filled with all the best and worst humanity has to offer. For many, the little blue bird and the service it represents are just further proof of the perversity of human nature—yes, even when restrained to 140 characters or less, people can be somehow spew novel’s worth of ignorance and pettiness. Yet amidst the cacophony and confusion, there persists plenty to love. Whether you’re a black belt-toting Twitter master, a dabbler in the social media substrate, or a neophyte looking for someone (or something) to follow, here are a few feeds of note for the food lovers out there.
Renowned chef Tanya Holland reveals where she dines on her nights off… http://t.co/oIuywb8sgI via @chefsfeed
— Brown Sugar Kitchen (@BrownSugarKitch) February 19, 2014
1. Chefs Feed – chefsfeed
Twitter Bio: The Webby Award winning chef-powered restaurant guide powered by 1,000 incredible chefs.
Followers: 38.9K
Need for Feed: Unlike many feeds, which are offshoots of popular blogs, Chefs Feed is the Twitter manifestation of a popular app. Actual recipe offerings are rare—instead, this is a feed best used as a constant source of dish and restaurant ideas for the traveling gourmand (or for one looking for new places in one’s hometown), as well as a means to “food stalk” popular chefs.
Lotsa gelatin recipes from the paleoparents today! http://t.co/NTBkUcFZKupic.twitter.com/69gd9pPN03
— Lexies Kitchen (@lexieskitchen) February 6, 2014
2. Lexies Kitchen – @lexieskitchen
Twitter Bio: Blogger.
Followers: 1,432
Need for Feed: A great resource for the gluten-averse. Lexie Croft began the blog from which this feed is derived in 2010, detailing her efforts to nutritionally overhaul and heal her youngest son. A cookbook and many blog posts later, her son is doing great, and her Twitter account provides a steady but not overwhelming stream of recipes for “tasty treats and eats made free of gluten, dairy, eggs and lots of other stuff.”
Lawsuit Filed Against Kroger Alleging Deceptive “Humane” Claims on Chicken (which is Purdue) http://t.co/oYS2eVraez we need more of this
— Mark Bittman (@bittman) February 12, 2014
3. Mark Bittman – @bittman
Twitter Bio: Writer on food for New York Times; author of How to Cook Everything.
Followers: 410K
Need for Feed: Though Bittman is probably best known for his book, How to Cook Everything, his tweets more often focus on big-picture issues at play in the production of our food and efforts to improve the health, or at least the eating habits, of our nation.
Happy National Muffin Day Oxford English Dictionary added, ‘Muffin Top’ to its online edition in 2011 #MuffinDaypic.twitter.com/1nIAVMtOVO