In South Africa we have a blogging platform called Letter Dash. Letter Dash is host to a whole collection of blogging arena’s including the media24 stable. When I started blogging the only food related blogging platform on Letter Dash was food24. I stayed there loyally even when Taste started their own blogging platform, as I believe in loyalty. In fact, whenever I saw a blogger on the global South African platform, blogging about food I suggested they come over to food24.

Then a series of happenings started with a certain blogger being most rude about other bloggers on this platform. This resulted in a 101 series of blogs where there was not enough space for my post on ethics and copyright. That aside, I was not getting any ‘front page’ exposure on food24 as this was left to the ‘in crowd’. I was however briefly a blog of note and got a ‘heard on food24′ mention every day. Not to sound like sour grapes, but I just felt this was not enough for me.

I have been blogging on Letter Dash for over 2 years, and I have published more than 860 posts and I felt the need for some more exposure. I decided to move over to the Taste platform to see if I would get more exposure and within two weeks I was featured on the front page of their newsletter (read my post here to celebrate). But, the biggest exposure has come my way as I am the featured blogger in the Taste Magazine November issue! This issue is a readers collaboration, and goes on sale today at all Woolworths Stores nationwide. Woolworths in South Africa is the equivalent to Marks & Spencer in the UK, and Taste Magazine is their in house magazine, run under the New Media Publishing stable.

To celebrate this great accolade I have made another dish using Woolworths ingredients, namely venison and blueberries.

© venison and blueberry casserole

Tandy

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