Thursday, June 15, 2017

Celebrating 10 Years of Food Hunting With A Giveaway!

By: The Food Hunter

I can't believe it's been 10 years already; boy how time flies when you are doing something you love. My motivation for starting this blog was to share my trials and tribulations on locating hard to find ingredients in Phoenix. Back then it was not uncommon for me to drive 30-45 minutes to purchase everything that was needed to put together a meal. Something I wasn't accustomed to, having lived on the east coast. One night over pizza and wine, a friend suggested I should start a blog to help others who might also be "hunting" for hard to find ingredients. And that's how the Food Hunter's Guide to Cuisine was born.

It's interesting to look back at my earlier posts, some of which didn't include recipes or photos, and see just how far the site has come. As I mentioned my focus when I started was locating hard to find food items in the Phoenix area, but since then my blog has expanded to "food hunting" all over the globe; from NYC, to California to Northern Italy.

The Food Hunter's Guide to Cuisine not only gave me an outlet to voice my opinions about food,  products and ingredients but also allowed me to develop my culinary skills and meet some wonderful people along the way. Over the years I’ve created recipes for cookware companies, grocery chains and local food growers. I've also had the opportunity to test many new and innovative products in order to share my findings with all of you.

Being able to share my passion for quality food and products with all of you is what inspires me to continue writing each and everyday. I want to give a big Thank You to everyone that has ever made one of my recipes or even thought about it; anyone that has read my restaurant/hotel reviews and/or considered my opinion when picking out new kitchen products! As a way to demonstrate my gratefulness I am giving away a beautiful 12 inch dual handle Lodge Cast Iron Pan.

Lodge is a family owned company that has been making cookware in the U.S. since 1896. I love cooking with cast iron and hope you will too! See contest below. 


a Rafflecopter giveaway

55 comments:

  1. I have been meaning to add to my cast iron collection. Well, it's really small so......thanks for the opportunity!

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  2. Happy blogiversary! What a great giveaway! Cast iron is definitely the best. ;)

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  3. Congrats on your blogiversary. Hope you have many more years.

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  4. Happy Blogiversary! Just love reading your recipes and restaurant reviews.

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  5. Congrats on 10 years, time flies when you're having fun!

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  6. Happy Anniversary!! Thank you for continuing to share your recipes and food wisdom! From your oat, honey, date cereal bars to the green chile rolls, and Niccolis--I've really learned so much from you!

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  7. Congrats on your success! Wow, that pan!!! WAY COOL!

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  8. I'm glad you stuck it out for 10 years. It has been a pleasure reading each post, cooking the recipes and enjoying the photos.

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  9. Aaah, I never really knew the original purpose was to locate and share info on harder to find ingredients. I like it. Congratulations on making it 10 years!

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  10. Congratulations, and thank you for all your work creating a great food blog!

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  11. Congrats and Happy 10 years! I could use a nice cast iron pan. Thanks for hosting!

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  12. 🎉 Happy Anniversary!🎉
    You were one of my very first blog hosts I followed!😊
    Love your work!🙌

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  13. Happy Anniversary! 10 years is a major milestone :)

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  14. Congrats on 10 years! Now I know where the name of your blog comes from!

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  15. Cast iron is the only way to go!

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  16. congrats a cast iron is essential because you can use it multi ways.

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  17. Congratulations. 10 years is amazing and you should be so proud of yourself. Fun to learn the origin of the blog name. Cheers to another 10 years!!

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  18. Fabulous!! Congratulations Theresa ~ 10 years is such an accomplishment!
    Exciting! I love sharing your posts with my readers when possible.
    Will enter the giveaway and use my NY state address!! xo

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  19. That's a long time~Congratulations!!!

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  20. Congratulations! Ten years is a long time - you're doing something right!

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  21. Congratulations it's ten years!

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  22. wow ten years congratulations on your hard work

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  23. I LOVE cooking in cast iron. Happy Anniversary. My 10 years is coming up in a few months and know from experience all the hard work it is, despite being a passion we love. Congrats and I would LOVE this pan and it would get a lot of use in my kitchen :)

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  24. Happy 10 years! That is definitely something to celebrate!

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  25. I love cooking with cast iron and make a ton of recipes to share on my blog using it. My favorite things to make are skillet cookies, corn bread, pizzas, biscuits and so much more. I would love to win another skillet.
    Blessings, Diane

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  26. Congrats! Love your site!

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  27. CONGRATULATIONS ON 10 YEARS! (clap clap)

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  28. Congrats! Love your blog, love cooking in cast iron.

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  29. I love Lodge cast iron!
    Happy Blogiversary!

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  30. I love Lodge cast iron!
    Happy Blogiversary!

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  31. Awesome and Congrats! Looks like a great pan! mindy_delisi@hotmail.com

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  32. Congratulations on your 10 years, that is amazing!

    Thanks for the chance to win!
    wildorchid985 at gmail dot com

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  33. Congratulations! Love this pot. Thank you for the chance to win.😁

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  34. Congrats... This is so cool.. I could use something like this..

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  35. Oh wow what a fabulous giveaway! I've been researching the benefits of using cast iron over regular pans (particularly non stick) for a few months so this would be fab to get me started on my cast iron journey! :)

    Angi

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  36. Congrats on 10 years, that is one heck of an accomplishment!

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  37. congrats on 10 years!

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  38. We have a cast iron skillet that we rarely used because things always stuck, but once we properly seasoned it, we use it once a week at least.

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