Stacie Stewart Blog Im a self-taught cook from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear who is currently writing a cookery book based on traditional British Regional dishes as well as launching my own bakery, The Beehive Bakery. I reached the finals, coming 4th in Masterchef series 6 on BBC1!  I believe good food should be accessible to all and I’m really keen to pass on my knowledge of simple traditional British cookery using the best possible ingredients with the hope of getting people back in the kitchen! Based in: North East
		Eat the Earth I love food - growing it, cooking it, eating it. This is my place to celebrate seasonal and local food, the food I cook at home, and food from my travels. Based in: North West
		Northern Snippet Live in a state of perpetual chaos, run a food led rural pub with my partner and four teenage children. Reviews, recipes and life in general! Based in: Northern England
		Belleau Kitchen A London boy moved to the country...I love to cook and I love my kitchen here in our little cottage in the heart of the Lincolnshire countryside. Surrounded by natures bounty and wonderful British produce. I'd love to share my recipes and cooking ideas with you. I'll try to be as seasonal as possible, growing my own produce, or purchasing from local producers. I'd also love to see what you've created in your kitchens... Based in: Lincolnshire
		Rose Cottage Rosie Hogg - Love of food and cooking began with rose petals, fresh soil and a drizzle of rainwater in my beloved shed - Rose Cottage - at the bottom of the garden. Now, I try to be slightly more sophisticated - only slightly - and spend time speaking, dreaming, eating and blogging food in a real kitchen, without the mud... Based in: IOW, Italy, Leeds and London
		Suffolk Foodie I was a chef in an award winning Suffolk restaurant and currently write about food for Suffolk magazine so my site is dedicated to finding the best home-made food on sale in Suffolk. On a street corner, at a fete that sells fab cakes in Summer, in a cafe, in a restaurant or a hotel - it'll be on here if it's good. Based in: Suffolk
		How not to do a food blog How not to do a food blog? Literally these are the food misadventures of an ex-chef. Based in: London and Leeds
		Senses in the kitchen Karolina, who comes from Poland, settled down in the Yorkshire Dales and enjoys cooking with local ingredients as well as some Polish and other specialities. Also writes about food related things and interesting places to visit. Based in: Yorkshire
		Eating Sussex Gilly Smith attempts to recapture her foodie childhood as she spurns the supermarket and takes her daughters Ellie (14) and Loulou (10) deep into the forests, farms and seas of Sussex to find their food. Based in: Sussex
		A Cooks Library Karen Homer is a London-based food writer, home cook and passionate local foodie. A Cook’s Library is an online library of recipes and features on eating the slow food way: seasonal, local, real food for the whole family. Based in: London
		Grazing Kate Insider's guide to food and life in Devon and Cornwall. Independent reviews of beaches, cafes and locally produced food. Based in Devon / Cornwall
		Kavey Eats  Based in London, one of the best cities in the world for great and amazingly diverse food experiences, Kavey eats. A lot! In her blog, Kavey Eats, she posts a mix of restaurant reviews (London and beyond), tasty recipes, cookery book reviews, product trials, interviews with chefs, the trials and tribulations of a kitchen garden, reviews of food festivals and anything else related to her obsession with food. Based in: London
		Girl Interrupted Eating Becky a 31 year old Brit , living in the East Midlands , United Kingdom. I love to cook with seasonal fresh and sometimes wild ingredients from my escapes to the countryside. Based in: East Midlands
		The Catty Life Thecattylife follows the trials and tribulations of catty, on her journey to get up close and personal to all things sweet, savoury and mainly, edible. Based in: London
		The Graphic Foodie The Graphic Foodie is a Brighton-based designer with an obsession for food. Read about her cooking experiments, family recipes from the Abruzzo region of Italy, food-related design and information and reviews on the city’s restaurants and food events. Based in: Brighton
		Shop Cook and Eat Mark Bader, a freelance photographer and cook, writes about favourite recipes simply cooked in his own way using fresh seasonal ingredients. Showcasing his stunning food photography, stories and interesting independent food suppliers. Based in: East Sussex
		The English Kitchen I moved to the UK from Canada in 2000.  I had heard the food over here was rubbish before I arrived.  Ever since then I've been proving that it isn't . . .  one recipe at a time.
		Jam and Clotted Cream A Cornish based food blog showcasing the best of local and seasonal produce, as well as featuring up to date food news and reviews from around the county and beyond Based in: Cornwall
		Scrummy PR Gillian Cowburn is so serious about helping promote local food that she wrote to Rick Stein to tell him about her mission - and ended up being invited to star alongside him in one of his 'Food Heroes' programmes. She recently left journalism after 34 years for a new challenge in PR and marketing, but continues to pen her weekly 'Checkout' column for The Westmorland Gazette encouraging people to eat local, seasonal and speciality foods from independent high street and farm shops. Based in: Cumbria
		Graze and Guzzle It’s all about local, British food & drink. From interesting local producers, to recipes, restaurants, markets and anything in between. Local food & drink heroes are unearthed and their stories told. Based in: Northamptonshire
		The Intolerant Gourmet A blog for amazing, allergy friendly foods. The Intolerant Gourmet is dedicated to delicious seasonal and original recipes that are also free for all to enjoy.
		Wild Mushrooms Online Based in: Hampshire
		Bon Appétit A blog about food, drink, cooking and recipes; especially how you can develop these to become unique versions of the originals! Based in: Essex
		The Particular Kitchen The Particular Kitchen follows Molly as she learns how to cook to accommodate her food allergies of dairy, eggs, and soy while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Based in: London
		My Mother's Kitchen, My Father's Garden Nostalgia; practical help; seasonal food. Writing to advise, cheer and prompt you to cook things you might have forgotten. Anna Vaught is cook, writer teacher and harried mother! Based in: Bath
		Flowers in the Kitchen This food blog is mainly about seasonal and traditional British food that has been locally sourced within Shropshire and the surrounding Counties. Based in: Shropshire
		Culinary Travels of a Kitchen Goddess Culinary Travels with a blogger who loves to cook and bake recipes from home & abroad; with a desire for eating local, seasonal, well sourced, ethical ingredients. Based in: Staffordshire
		Dinner Diary Kerri and Stephen are London-based food bloggers who cook at home and post (almost) daily updates on what's coming out of their kitchen. Based in: London
		London Eater LondonEater is your definitive guide to the finding the best restaurants in London. Featuring in depth restaurant reviews and delicious foodtography, it's a foodblog like none other. Based in: London
		Milk for the Morning Cake Delicious grain and sugar free recipes for breads, cakes and more, nestling amongst warm and lyrical stories of family life by the sea. Based in: Dorset
		Figs and Lavender Dedicated to local and seasonal food that happens to be gluten free, Figs and Lavender details my cooking, eating and food shopping adventures in London and more recently in India. Based in: London
		A Glug of Oil All things foodie - covering a variety of recipes from English, to Greek, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Korean and more! Based in: Shropshire
		Essentially Healthy Food Inspiration and guidance in the ‘Art of Healthy Eating’ – discover food preparation and presentation techniques that will increase the enjoyment of healthy food Based in: Nottinghamshire
		The English can eat The proprietoress of The Underground Restaurant in Kilburn, a home restaurant in her living room. She tries to source local organic ingredients and cooks everything on her Aga. Based in: London
		A Girl Has to Eat After years of continuous eating, 'A Girl Has to Eat' has been spurred on to create her own food blog. Read about her fabulous (and sometimes not so fabulous) dining adventures in her restaurant reviews Based in: London
		The Frugal Cook Fiona Beckett is an award-winning food writer, blogger and author of the recently published 'The Frugal Cook'. She also runs the student cookery site http://www.beyondbakedbeans.com Based in: Bristol
		Cherrapeno Cherrapeno is a food blog with a sweet tooth, sharing cooking and culinary adventures from the beautiful garden of England, Kent Based in: Kent
		Vegging Out Writer and trainee nutritional therapist, Amanda Hepburn, blogs about all things natural, local and nutritionally good, including: seasonal food, nutrition, recipes, veg boxes, gardening, composting...
		Just Cook It Just Cook It – food, cooking and stories from a professional writer and amateur chef trying to live the ‘good life’ in the Cambridgeshire countryside Based in: Cambridgeshire

Food Bloggers

Have a look at some of the top UK Food Bloggers who are our Friends

	Tinned Tomatoes Jacqueline serves up vegetarian food that everyone can enjoy. She has a bit of a sweet tooth, so there is a good selection of cakes, cookies and desserts to choose from. The monthly soup and salad challenge 'No Croutons Required' is also hosted here. It is a great foodie resource, with hundreds of imaginative soup and salad recipes, categorised by ingredient. Based in: Scotland
	Food Stories Food Stories is the diary of a food obsessed woman living in London. In her own words she 'cooks A LOT and eats A LOT. Based in: London
	The Cycling Cook A cyclist from Leicester writes about his passion for good food and love of cooking, with great recipes and photographs. Based in: Leicester
	The Good Stuff Celebrating beer as a true artisanal product & supporting independent pubs, bars and breweries. Reviews, tastings and food matches. Good People drink Good Beer. Based in: Leeds
	Trainee Domestic Goddess Bright, blue-eyed, 20-something and domestic goddess...in training. With the dessert-loving, generous portion control of Nigella plus the ethics of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Based in: Derbyshire
	With Knife and Fork Obsessed with food. Buying, eating, cooking, trying, growing, reading, science, history, everything about it. Whatever sparks an interest and is vaguely food or drink related. Based in: London / Suffolk
	Purely Food A UK based food blog with 90% simple, nutritious, recipes that follow the seasons and 10% life's little indulgences! Includes homemade breads and sweet treats Based in: Cheshire
	Soupmaker Following seasonal changes in the organic vegetable garden starting with preparation to seedlings and on to the end result being put into exciting recipes.
	Paganum A Yorkshire online farmers market supplying meat and produce from family farms and small artisan firms in the Yorkshire Dales. The produce is naturally reared using traditional methods. Based in: Yorkshire
	A Pot of Tea and a Biscuit Sylvie, a German living in the UK, uses her blog A Pot of Tea and Biscuit to share what is cooking and baking in her continental kitchen.
	Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef Aidan is a young chef from Hackney, currently training in Michelin-starred restaurants in Spain. He blogs about gastronomy, professional and home cooking and restaurants. Based in: London
	Gourmet on a Grant! Mike is a Classical Music Composition student with a love for food and drink. His regular blog gives great ideas for student cooks worldwide! Based in: Cardiff / Liverpool
	Annes Kitchen A food blog that is dedicated to the food and recipes that Anne loves to make and eat at home
	Real Ale Blog RealAleBlog is written by real ale fans, for real ale fans. If you have an interest in real ale there’s something here for you Based in: Norwich
	Credit Munch 34 year old Electrician with a passion for food, blogging about my food and the local food outlets I like. Based in: Dorset
	Leeds Grub Based In Leeds, this blog reviews restaurants and food outlets, and champions local, independent businesses. Based in: Leeds
	Coffee and Vanilla Euro-Caribbean (Mostly Food) Blog by Margot. Based in: London
	Cook Your Life A collection of thoughts, recipes, pictures and passions on food, designed to get you inspired in the kitchen and laughing together at the dinner table. Based in: Kent
	Around Britain with a Paunch Affectionately referred to as the "Paunch", Jonathan and Sarah blog about their foodie travels, unusual recipes and healthy obsession with eating in general. Based in: London
	The Real Epicurean When it comes to food provenance is everything and access to the best fresh and local ingredients what all serious epicurean's strive for. Based in: London
	Souperior Fahara's the name and Souperior's the blog. Recipes, reviews, tastings...if it's to do with food She's into it! Food is Fahara's passion, as well as her trade. Based in: London
	Good Food Shops Looking for good food and unusual or regional ingredients? This blog lists and describes some of the best food suppliers and producers in the UK.
A Spoonful of Sugar	Based in: Bristol
Eat Like a Girl	Based in: London
The Wild Garlic Blog
Consuming the Harvest	Based in: Norfolk
Happy Food	Based in: Gloucestershire
Feast with Bron	Based in: London
Eating Leeds	Based in: Leeds
Laquet
Them Apples	Based in: Yorkshire
Springtime in the Country	Based in: Lake District
Ryan's Recipe Blog	Based in: Herfordshire
Away with the Fairycakes	Based in: West Sussex
Food Snob	Based in: London
A Year from Oak Cottage
Fife Diet	Based in: Scotland
Organic Boxes
Food Safari	Based in: Suffolk
Improving the Shed
Chef Andrew Mason	Based in: Birmingham
Taste Bud Travels

Green Sites

Below are links to some Green UK Websites and Blogs