An adventurous spirit in life and in cooking, Toni Dash loves creating and sharing approachable recipes featuring seasonal ingredients with bold flavors and unique twists on her food blog, Boulder Locavore.
The focus of Toni Dash’s blog, Boulder Locavore, is easy recipes that are achievable regardless of one’s experience in the kitchen. Whether for busy moms or busy single professionals, she believes good food should not have to take hours to make.
Being an intrepid traveler with a serious case of wanderlust, much of Toni’s food inspiration comes from her experiences on the road, which she loves to bring home and share with her readers in freshly developed recipes. Toni also loves sharing tips, tricks and shortcuts from her kitchen.
All the recipes on Boulder Locavore gluten-free, whether naturally so or integrating favorite gluten-free products Toni uses herself. Not liking to turn anyone away from her table, the recipes which are not naturally gluten-free include a gluten-free option.
Boulder Locavore began out of Toni’s experiment to see if she could exist over a Colorado winter, sourcing all her protein and produce from within a 100-mile radius. She succeeded and, in the process, discovered surprising local resources for obtaining winter food, as well as new ways of keeping food she would not have found without her dedicated quest. After many requests to share her findings, Toni started Boulder Locavore as a repository for information and resources.
As part of the early days of Boulder Locavore Toni began sharing seasonal recipes. When eating seasonally, the ingredients are the star attraction and the recipe follows. Readers all over the United States and the world began to follow those recipes which shaped the direction of Boulder Locavore to what it is today.
Toni lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, two kids and Clementine, her English Bulldog.
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Questions:
What did you do before you became a food blogger?
When you worked in high tech, what did you do?
Where did you get the clothing?
Was it hard to sell it without keeping it for yourself?
Why did you start blogging?
From the beginning, how did you know you were getting traffic? People were just commenting?
You didn’t stay on blogger?
How did you pick the name of your food blog?
When you were on blogger, was it the same name plus blogspot?
When you started, how many times a week did you publish a post?
How many drafts do you have in place to be published, right now?
How long ago did you have your audit with him?
Do you have anybody that helps you with the blog?
When did you figure out that you needed the help?
What do you use for backgrounds?
Do you sometimes think you should rotate a few of the new ones in?
Do you use natural light or artificial?
What kind of camera do you have?
What is your favorite lens to use?
What is your most popular post?
Did you redo it at some point?
Do you have a favorite marketing tool?
What do you think is the hardest thing about blogging?
What do you love about blogging?
What is your favorite cuisine?
What is one thing you can’t live without in your kitchen?
What is your favorite cookbook?
Beth Neels
I really enjoyed Toni! She made so many great points! I really loved the labrador story too, because I have had many labs!
Laura
Great interview, some very practical info
Kylie | Midwest Foodie
Loved this interview! I could listen to you too talk all day too! 🙂
Elaine
I’m so glad you enjoyed it Kylie. Thanks so much for your comment!