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Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:28
On Food, Food Blogging and More—In Conversation with Blessica and Sayantan
Hello, and welcome to today's segment of Inditalk. For today's panel, we have joining us, Jessica and Shanton, who will be sharing their tidbits about their journey as food bloggers. Welcome, welcome, you guys. And without further Ado, I'll jump straight to my first question to you, which is what is the best and the worst thing about being a food blogger
Blessica Abraham
@Blessica · 1:01
The best thing about being a food blogger is that you get to explore a variety of stuff that can be recipes, cuisines and a lot more. It feels like if you are a food blogger, you get to educate and influence people people about your area of interest. As social media is at its peak, a lot of people are into food blogging and your followers look up to you for honest ratings and reviews. Talking about the worst part
The best things in food long is that you can try many unique recipes and you have a chance to visit new places and go new restaurants if you know cooking and you have a chance to try new recipes and recording it in a unique way and the bad things and the bad things or the hosting I have faced in food logging is that whenever I go to any restaurants and try their best recipes if I don't like it but you have a pressure to kick give the five star ratings on that that's the worst part of football I have festival
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:09
Okay. So my next question to you would be where does your passion for food and cooking come from
Inspiration in food blogging came from my mother. He always tried to Cook very unique and very beautiful recipe for us
Blessica Abraham
@Blessica · 0:29
Talking about my passion. It is in my jeans. I would say my mom is a great Cook. In fact, the first video I uploaded and started off my channel with was her recipe only. Well Lockdown 2020 also played an important role in bringing out my cooking skills. I tried Momos Dalgona, coffee, spring rolls, baked a cake for my own birthday as everything was shut. So yeah, gradually I started enjoying it and decided to take it to another level
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:18
So basically, the moms are the real inspirations, right. Are there any ingredients that you can't stand in recipes? And also what is that one ingredient that you think say you can't live without
Blessica Abraham
@Blessica · 0:18
There is no such thing that I don't like adding in my recipes. Earlier, I had an aversion to mustard seeds, but now the scenario is that I am loving it, too, and that one ingredient I cannot live without is salt. Because with without salt, there is no taste both in food and life. It's
The ingredients that I can't stand in any recipes is that Munich. I know Yunis takes a huge part in making any baked items, but I don't like that. And the one thing you must have in any kind of food is salt and sugar. Salt is the most important thing for me
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:14
Could you share with us some food photography hacks? Also, how many takes does it usually need to get to that perfect, jewel worthy capture
Actually, there is no hacks in photography. Whenever I see very good food or very decorative food, I always try to take a picture of it and I I take only two or three shots of any picture and I can easily select one or two pictures from that
Blessica Abraham
@Blessica · 0:25
Well, I always locate my food on a beautiful background and then take pictures. Anything that can enhance your food. Photography, I would say, is editing. Editing can bring beautiful colors to your pictures and will make it look tempting. It takes around nine to ten takes to get that perfect, jewel worthy picture. As I try various angles to get a pretty short
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:42
Yeah. As Blessica said, I think the background is really important for to kind of bring in that aesthetic effect. And of course, the angle is very important. And every time I might self tried to capture some food picture, I think yeah, I do struggle with the angle because the jewel worthy effect, it only comes from certain angles which enhance answers the features of the food. So yeah. Anyway, I'm just blurring. Okay
Last year I went to CC one, and there I saw a restaurant named Football, a seafood restaurant. And there I tried the recipe named Chilimilly octopus, which is meat from octopus. And it tastes very good
Blessica Abraham
@Blessica · 0:15
So the most adventurous dish that I've ever eaten is Dragon Fire Chicken momos, I am totally in love with it. The name itself is so tempting and unique. So is the dish, and it's just amazing. I must say you. Bye
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 0:35
Well, both the Adventures dishes do sound pretty good. I mean, it was a good experience. So I'll take that as a recommendation. Thank you so much. Blessica and Chancellor Done for joining me for this conversation this afternoon. It was great talking to you guys and getting glimpses from your food blogging journey. Thank you so much. I'll be signing off now and opening the platform to I users for further questions or comments. So, yeah. Thank you so much