My love of food was born from trauma. Cooking in our house was a chore, a chore done out of love, but not done with a lot of love. And we could taste it! My mother, I don’t mean to throw her under the bus or anything, was a terrible cook. Good food has always excited me and thankfully in the last three decades the food scene has changed dramatically. We eat out more, we're exposed to a wider range of flavours and dabbling in the kitchen is easy thanks to the huge increase in media content about food culture. These are the foodies we follow for inspiration.
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@halfbakedharvest
Tieghan Gerard runs an impressive Instagram account with 2.9-million followers. This is all backed up with cook books, social media, a website and Pinterest where she posts recipes. They say that you eat with your eyes first and we could snack on her food-photos for breakfast, lunch and dinner! It’s home cooking that’s been completely pimped, at the same time her recipes look easy enough to do at home. Tieghan lives in Colorado and her food vibe is full flavour. Her impressive sweet offerings and her cocktails all need to be tried!
@lickyourphone
@oksana_overeats
Oksana Zhang
@georgeats
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This has been the hardest blog piece to put together, I have literally had three snack breaks as I’ve compiled this list. What I’ve learnt from my time delving into the foodie scene on Instagram is that social media really lends itself to food conversations. It’s so easy to connect with people we hardly know over food and following foodies doesn’t give you any negative feelings that other sorts of Insta accounts are known to do. None of these accounts will make you feel terrible but they might make you feel hungry!
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Author: Bianca Richardson-Read