About

This is a food blog. There’s no actual porn here.

The blogger: TFP

I’m TFP, a 36-year-old Western Australian woman of Chinese-Malaysian descent. My family migrated to Perth, Western Australia when I was ten years old. My food blog, The Food Pornographer® combines the three things I love to do most: eat, take photographs and write. I live with my partner Jac, cat Pixel and kitten Truffle. We have recently lost our other cat Billy Lee.

I have worked in the hospitality industry and in a call centre, been a web designer/developer and a university tutor. I have an Honours degree in Creative Writing and a PhD in Literature. I live and breathe the Internet and work full-time in online communications. My blog is not my day job, but I’d love it to be, someday.

I like my prawns bursty, my egg yolks gooey and my SPAM fried to crispy. I am obsessed with bacon and talk about it frequently. I have to eat rice or noodles every few days or suffer withdrawal symptoms. I’m proudly not a food snob.

While The Food Pornographer takes up most of my time and energy, I also love LEGO and share images of my creations at another blog, The LEGO woman

The blog: The Food Pornographer®

I started The Food Pornographer website in August 2005 during my PhD candidacy as a way to keep my family updated on what I was getting up to, which included photos of what I’d been eating. My family enjoyed my posts and pictures, but I was surprised to discover people I didn’t know were visiting the blog, looking for food pictures, leaving comments and returning for more food porn.

The blog continues to evolve. It features food photos, restaurant reviews, kitchen gadget reviews and stories about whatever I’ve been eating, from takeaway and junk food to home cooking and family feasts to dining out (anything from cheap and cheerful to fine dining and degustation), holidays and food events around Perth and Western Australia.

Restaurant write-ups and holiday eating
Perth | Albany | Busselton | Canberra | Sydney (2010) | Sydney (2011) | Kuching, Malaysia

I’m not a food critic or expert or a professional photographer – I’m just a person who loves eating, taking photographs and writing.

The Food Pornographer has now become one of Western Australia’s most popular food blogs and has a worldwide audience, with the largest audiences coming from Australia, US, UK and Singapore. Through my blogging, I have made many food-obsessed friends I wouldn’t have otherwise.

The Food Pornographer was a finalist in the Best Food Weblog category of the 2008 Bloggies and has been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Perth Sunday Times magazine (STM). I’ve been interviewed on Nova 93.7 FM and Twin Cities FM Perth. See TFP in the media for details and to read/listen to interviews.

The Food Pornographer social media

My camera

Posts 2005 to 26 August 2007 – Canon Ixus V
Posts 27 August 2007 to July 2010 – Panasonic Lumix TZ3
Posts 10 August 2010 onwards (current) – Panasonic Lumix G2
Read my review of the Panasonic Lumix G2 camera

Blogging software and theme

I use WordPress with the Thesis theme
Read why I recommend the Thesis theme for WordPress

My web host

Storm on Demand Cloud Hosting
If cloud hosting is not for you, Storm’s parent company Liquid Web provides web hosting, VPS and dedicated servers. With both Storm on Demand and Liquid Web you get 24-hour heroic support (which I’ve already made very good use of).

Media

The Food Pornographer has been featured in print, radio and Internet media.
To read and listen to interviews: TFP in the media
To contact me for interview: Contact

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