Dishing Podcast

Chris Collins' blog, Don't Go Bacon My Heart, is all about making food fun.

Chris Collins believes that home cooking should be enjoyable and the food you cook should always bring a smile to your face. He's also a firm believer that you can lead a perfectly healthy life and still put a whole cup of cream in your pasta.

Chris began his blog merely as a way to document the recipes he was creating in his spare time.

After moving to Australia for two years, his blog grew and so did his passion for food. When he returned to the UK, Chris made the decision to pursue blogging as a career and has never looked back!

In his spare time, Chris is either thinking about food, eating food or wondering how he can justify eating something that 'Serves 4'.

Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Julie Maestre is a twenty-something who is obsessed with food and shares a passion for cooking on her food blog Cooked by Julie.

Julie Maestre attended the Kosher Culinary Arts Center in New York City, worked in several restaurants and bakeries, and finally started her cooking channel on YouTube in late 2012. She started her blog, Cooked by Julie, to share her passion for food and cooking with others.

Julie also enjoys surfing, traveling, reading, poker (she won a ladies poker tournament in Atlantic City not too long ago), skiing, and lying on the beach until the sun goes down, preferably with some sushi and white wine.

Liz Berg is the founder, recipe developer, and photographer behind That Skinny Chick Can Bake food blog.

Liz is a skinny chick with a penchant for baking and three grown, yet still always hungry kids, a chocoholic hubby, plus an energetic pup who excels at crumb removal. As a confident, self-taught baker, she offers a plethora of knowledge, along with plenty of recipes for bakers and wannabes to peruse and enjoy.

Liz's love of baking started in her teens with the tattered Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from her childhood kitchen. When she married that chocoholic many years later, she began to perfect her baking skills by creating decadent desserts and dabbling with food styling.

Liz launched her food blog in 2010 to share recipes and tips with friends and fellow foodies across the world.

Maria Vannelli is a self-taught baker, cook, writer and photographer sharing simple, family-friendly recipes at She Loves Biscotti food blog.

Maria likes to say she does not have a professional background as baker, cook, writer or photographer. She's just a gal, living in Montreal, married (same amazing guy for 33 years!), mother of two awesome kids (no longer kids but still awesome) and most recently a grandmother. When she's not talking about food, she's either making it, eating it, sharing it or thinking about it.

By training, Maria is a professional dietitian. She also had the privilege of being born to Italian immigrants, so you knowfood is important to her!

You might say that her obsession with food is what motivated her to obtain a degree from McGill University. She graduated all the way back in 1987 with a Science Degree and a specialization in Dietetics. But that's not all! As a registered dietitian, Maria wanted to specialize in geriatric nutrition and in 1992, she completed a Certificate in Gerontology from Université de Montréal.

Throughout her career as a registered dietitian, Maria has worked in different geriatric institutions. She just recently retired as food service manager of an acute care hospital and four geriatric centers.

Maria's mom was her inspiration and the reason she cooks and bakes. Following the sudden loss of her mother, Maria created the blog to document her mom's recipes. Along the way, she began to share some of her own favorites. She Loves Biscottiis about sharing simple, well balanced, family-friendly recipes that range from the traditional Italian dishes of Maria's youth to modern twists on the classics, all using fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Maria's daughter, Sara, has helped with editing and proofreading posts since the blog's conception in 2014. Sara's ideas and insights about recipes, as well as her ongoing support and encouragement, have greatly contributed to the blog's success.

Maria hopes the simplicity of her recipes and the use of quality ingredients will inspire you to bring your loved ones closer together at meal times and empower you to create memorable moments around great food.

Lindsay Moe is a freelance food photographer, video editor, and blogger at The Live-In Kitchen.

Lindsay started blogging in 2011 as a stay-at-home mom looking for something to do. She has since turned it into a business that is able to help support her family.

Lindsay taught herself how to cook by experimenting with recipes she found in cookbooks and food blogs. After becoming a flexible vegetarian in 2012, she became passionate about creating meatless meals that were fun and delicious using every day ingredients.

When Lindsay isn't in the kitchen you can find her homeschooling her four children or hiking the bluffs of the Driftless Region.

Andrew Wilder is founder and owner of Nerd Press (formerly Blog Tutor), a full service website support platform for food bloggers and entrepreneurs.

Since 1998, Andrew Wilder has successfully combined his passions for food and technology by helping professional food bloggers and entrepreneurs build, repair and maintain their websites.

Andrew is also founder and creator of the popular food blog Eating Rules and the annual October Unprocessed challenge, which has helped more than 30,000 people change their lives by cutting out processed food.

Andrew is a noted expert in both the culinary and technical fields, having spoken on a variety of topics for conferences such as WordCamp LAX, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Food & Wine, Techmunch, BlogHer, and BlogHer Food. He has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Eating Well Magazine.

Though he geeks out on technology (and has even contributed to WordPress Core), Andrew's clients love that he communicates using "real people" language, not confusing jargon and tech-speak.

Andrew is a proud Eagle Scout, and lives in Santa Monica, California with his husband Matty.

Danielle Wolter loves to learn about new cuisines and flavors and to incorporate them into her cooking. She and her boyfriend share a passion for traveling (when she has time) both internationally and domestically in search of new dishes. She is always learning new techniques, using new products and trying new ingredients in the service of creating new recipes from scratch or inspired by ideas from reading cookbooks.

Danielle has a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance, an MBA and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She manages the accounting and finance departments at a private company during the day, and works on her blog during evenings and weekends.

In her free time, Danielle loves to binge Netflix, nap and take long road trips in the country.

Emily Kemp shares her passion for Italian cooking on her food blog, Inside the Rustic Kitchen. She loves cooking authentic and traditional recipes as well as putting her own spin on the old classics. Emily's goal is to make her blog a 'go to' index of those glorious Italian recipes you can always trust to taste delicious and truly work.

Emily and Nathan lived in Italy for five years, steeped in Italian culture, history, language, (fabulous!) weather and of course, FOOD.

Emily also works as a food photographer creating beautiful images for other food blogs and a virtual assistant helping bloggers create SEO-friendly content.

The focus of Toni Dash's blog, Boulder Locavore, is easy recipes that are achievable regardless of one's experience in the kitchen. Whether for busy moms or busy single professionals, she believes good food should not have to take hours to make.

Being an intrepid traveler with a serious case of wanderlust, much of Toni's food inspiration comes from her experiences on the road, which she loves to bring home and share with her readers in freshly developed recipes. Toni also loves sharing tips, tricks and shortcuts from her kitchen.

All the recipes on Boulder Locavore gluten-free, whether naturally so or integrating favorite gluten-free products Toni uses herself. Not liking to turn anyone away from her table, the recipes which are not naturally gluten-free include a gluten-free option.

Boulder Locavore began out of Toni's experiment to see if she could exist over a Colorado winter, sourcing all her protein and produce from within a 100-mile radius. She succeeded and, in the process, discovered surprising local resources for obtaining winter food, as well as new ways of keeping food she would not have found without her dedicated quest. After many requests to share her findings, Toni started Boulder Locavore as a repository for information and resources.

As part of the early days of Boulder Locavore Toni began sharing seasonal recipes. When eating seasonally, the ingredients are the star attraction and the recipe follows. Readers all over the United States and the world began to follow those recipes which shaped the direction of Boulder Locavore to what it is today.

Toni lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, two kids and Clementine, her English Bulldog.

After getting married in the summer of 2012, Dina Polyashov took a three-month break from college, which gave her a lot of time to learn and experiment with cooking. She dove deep into cook books and food blogs and discovered how fun cooking could be. It amazed her how only a few ingredients could come together and become such delicious food!

Shortly after giving birth to her first baby, she published her first blog post. From there Dina continued developing recipes and photos for her blog despite all the challenges that came with her second pregnancy, and having her energetic toddler running around while she worked.

With her easy to follow step-by-step photo recipes, Dina hopes she can inspire other new cooks to discover how simple and rewarding cooking can be.