All about Meg
Megnut.com is a website about food. Started in 1999 as an all-purpose blog, its focused switched entirely to food in May, 2006. I (author Meg Hourihan) am neither chef nor foodie nor critic. I prefer the label "food enthusiast." I have worked in a variety of jobs -- in a past life I was an internet entrepreneuer and co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that produced Blogger. Pyra was acquired by Google in 2003. I am now spending my days exploring food through this website.
My approach to food blogging is guided by my varied food experiences. I've worked the ovens at a Cape Cod pie shop (worst moment: when my hand slipped into boiling blackberry pie), spent nine-hour shifts making ice cream in Cambridge MA (nothing bad about that), and worked garde manger at a restaurant on Nantucket Island, MA (see photo). I've read many many cookbooks and tried lots of recipes. I even took a one-day cooking class in Bangkok, but have yet to attempt to reproduce any Thai delights at home. Most importantly, I've loved food and cooking since approximately fourth grade, when I burned milk while making chocolate pudding after school.
I live in New York City with my husband Jason and my cat Bodhi. I shop as much as possible at the Union Square Greenmarket.
About this site
Megnut.com is powered by Movable Type 3.3. Technical support is provided by the handsome folks at Apperceptive who I highly recommend for all your technical needs. Original design is by Jason Kottke and then messed up by me as time goes on. All content © Meg Hourihan except for guest blogging posts and reader emails, which are © their original authors. Questions? Send an email.
Now to answer some made up questions!
What's the focus of this site?
This site is an excuse for me to follow my culinary curiosities wherever they may lead me. That means recipes some days, links others, some articles, some travel, and basically whatever I find interesting in the world of food. As my interests change, so will the content. It will not be limited to any specific topic except the broad one of "food".
Where'd the old stuff go that wasn't food related?
I've moved all the older content to a new website, meg.hourihan.com. I will update that site with non-food-related content, if I have any.
If you had to eat only one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Front runner: soft-boiled eggs, my current obsession. Alternate choices: potato pancakes, a perfect BLT, fresh corn on the cob and strawberries from my grandpa's garden.
what is megnut?
Megnut is a site about food written by Meg Hourihan. She lives in NYC. More...
recent features
The sweet (and bittersweet) taste of summer
Summer drinks should be like summer evenings: long, light and cool. Guest writer A.D. introduces some less common ones to enliven our senses during these wonderful long hot days.
Strawberry Fields Forever
Food traditions bind my family; I'm reminded of that every year when I drive to north-central Massachusetts to pick strawberries with my grandparents.
Comparing Frozen Fish to Fresh
My mother swears by frozen fish. I was unconvinced, and decided to put her statements to the test: could flash-frozen fish taste as good as fresh local fish from the Greenmarket or even fresh fish from a local supermarket?
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