Blogger No.11 Feast and Glory
Feast and Glory is the food blog of Sheffield foodie Clare. Clare writes about the food she has cooked at home and meals in restaurants in Sheffield and beyond. Along with a fellow Sheffield foodie,...
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Gary, the blogger behind Exploits of a Food Nut is the final final challenger to accept the Olympic Food Challenge. To be fair to Gary he was one of the first to agree to be involved, but he was the...
View ArticleOn Your Marks, Get Set...
This time next week the nation will be settling down to watch Danny Boyle’s imaginings of Britain. Sheep, fake clouds and a village green cricket match are all to star in the biggest show on Earth,...
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Welcome to the first day of the Olympic Food Challenge. The various food bloggers have been in training for months for this herculean feat, 19 days and 204 countries to eat from. There may be some...
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We're still a day away from the extravaganza that will be Danny Boyle's opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. The sporting action has continued with yet more football. The English team (featuring a...
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We are already two days into the Olympic Food Challenge and finally the Olympics have decided to join us. This morning saw some Robin Hood action as the archers* set us all a-quiver in the individual...
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After the highs of last night's opening ceremony, we have now suffered the lows of Mark Cavendish's defeat at the road race this morning. We're not going to mope or start pointing fingers of blame....
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The second full day of the Olympic Games gave Team GB its first medals of the games. Lizzie Armitstead won silver in a thrilling sprint for the line in the Women's cycling road race and Rebecca...
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What a day of Olympic action we have had. Blog updates have been coming in thick and fast as the second week of the Olympic Food Challenge looms ever nearer. It has also been a hectic day of sport...
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A full week of cooking food from the nations that make up the Olympic family has now passed and for some reason* Team GB** still don't have a nice shiny gold medal. We have picked up a silver in the...
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Day 8 in the Olympic Food Challenge and day 5 of the big sporting event in London* and finally Team GB have their first Gold medal(s). It was only a matter of time before we won some events while...
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There has been so much Olympic action today that I really don't know where to start. A flurry of gold and silver medals and a hand full of world records thrown in for good measure. Team GB even...
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We are now over the hump of the Olympic Food Challenge, there are less days ahead of us than have passed. To celebrate Team GB have decided to take up third place in the medal table. Sadly some of...
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I don't know about you but I'm exhausted. Just watching the Team GB Olympians as they run, cycle, row, skull, shoot, throw and paddle their way to gold medals has worn me out. I know that they can't...
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It has been an other fantastic day in the world of the 2012 Olympic Games. Andy Murray finally beat Roger Federer in a final to win gold for Team GB and then managed to win Silver with Laura Robson....
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It has been another cracking day of Olympic action. Team GB have won an other gold medal in the velodrome and their first showjumping Gold medal for 60, cementing our position as the best nation at...
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After today's medal haul this year's group of Team GB Olympians is the best we have ever seen! We have surpassed the medal total that was achieved in Beijing and there are still 5 days to go. My...
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After the euphoria of the last few golden days of the Olympic Games, we have been brought down to earth with a bump. No gold medals! This must be what it feels like to be Australian*. The truth is...
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Team GB have returned to their golden ways today. We are now best at team and individual prancing horses and I for one wouldn't mess with a British woman*. The other big Olympic news was Usain Bolt...
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Today has seen Team GB continue to add to their impressive medal total for London 2012. No golds today but a pair of silvers from Weymouth and a couple of bronzes in Taekwondo and Boxing. I don't...
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After another golden day I don't think I want London 2012 to end. Team GB had the best possible start when Ed McKeever picked up gold in the 200m kayak sprint. Tom Daley realised his Olympic dream by...
View ArticleDay 19
Well that's all folks. Over the last 19 days our team have battled illness, injury, work, family life, and pregnancy to bring you the food of the 204 nations competing in the London 2012 Olympic...
View ArticleAn update
Phew, what a couple of weeks that was! We only have a brief break before the Paralympics start and the country once again goes mad for the achievements of Team GB. The one downside to all of this...
View ArticleOlympic Food Challenge - The final push
As I mentioned in the last post, we unfortunately fell short of eating food from all 204 nations that were competing in the London 2012 Olympic Games. We really tried, 160 meals were cooked and...
View ArticleOlympic Food Challenge - The home straight
As the torch is extinguished for the last time in the Olympic Stadium in London, so we see the end of the Olympic Food Challenge. I set this challenge back in April, thinking that it would add an...
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