Whether you fancy yourself a foodie, a fiendish food porn browser or are simply trying to impress a new boo with a home-cooked meal, social media is a great place to find recipe inspirations. Check out these food-focused social media accounts.
The Oregon Food Scene
Over the last few years, Eugene and Portland’s tourism industry has been heavily focused on the cuisine of the Pacific Northwest. We’re known for a lot of things when it comes to food —salmon, marionberries and hazelnuts are the first that come to mind— but now, more than ever, a growing microbrew scene.
Feast your eyes on some delicious-looking beer, burgers and pastrami. Check out the Instagram feeds of Ninkasi and Falling Sky Brewery for a good dose of bar and beer porn.
Portland’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ Instagram provides beautiful photography focused around their coffee. Stumptown is all about documenting perfectly-executed latte art accompanied by well-dressed hipsters in flannel — all perfectly lit and filtered.
If you’re the kind to call yourself a foodie, join up on the Facebook group Eugene Foodies. It’s a fairly popular and active group, posting pictures of food made at home and locally.
Your Fill of Food Porn
You may feel a little ridiculous instagramming every meal you eat, but apparently none of these ‘grammers have much of a problem with it.
Live vicariously through the perfectly-lit lives of the writers and cooks at Bon Appetit Magazine. Their pictures are not only pretty to look at but their how-to videos are beautiful and informative.
Called “the darling of the slow food movement,” celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Instagram is packed full of images of his seemingly impossible-looking dishes and beautiful garden. If you can handle a promotional post every now and then, Oliver’s Instagram is worth subscribing to. Another celebrity chef’s Instagram, Tom Colicchio, is maybe less beautiful than Oliver’s — however, I feel it is much more accurate to the chef lifestyle and never self-promoting.
How-to’s & Recipes for Students
Cooking on your own is hard. It takes everything I have to not just make pasta every night. These accounts understand the mindset of the college student. Food for the nearly-broke? There’s a website for that. Short on time? One for that too. Think all food blogs are pretentious and annoying? Don’t worry, on the Internet, there’s something for everyone.
The recently started UO Spoon University is an online publication with a college student focus, covering all sorts of food-related topics such as restaurant reviews and food and cocktail recipes.
Just because you can’t spend a lot of money doesn’t mean it can’t be classy. Food blogs like Full Thyme Student and Budget Bytes are designed to help students that are on a strict budget and short on time. In addition to quick recipes, Full Thyme Student gives guides on how to manage a grocery budget and how to coupon.
Some food blogs are a run by superhero stay-at-home moms and overachievers that make being a home cook look glamorous. Silly food blogs such as WHAT THE FUCK SHOULD I MAKE FOR DINNER and Thug Kitchen bring a lighter side to the kitchen, giving damn good recipes with hilarious commentary and instructions.