No big song and dance.

And what a long, dark month November is! It gets harder and harder to get good stories for The Foodie Bugle as the days shorten, but  twenty writers have come together to bring you 40 new articles, reviews, interviews and recipes  for the 9^th edition, due out on 15^th November 2011.

From foodie fairs and markets around the world; interviews with food writers, cookery school owners and chefs; life stories from great food and garden photographers; meetings with potters, windmill owners and nursery growers; reviews of cookery books and how they are created;  visits to hotels and restaurants, farm shops, bakeries, cheese mongers and pubs, we have scoured the culinary corners of the world to bring voices, news  and stories that mainstream media ignores.

Driven by advertising and subscription fees, food and drink magazines and newspapers have to sell copies and the only assured way to do that is to cover many of the pages with high profile chefs and the latest celebrities, or brands that can afford very expensive PR companies that enable their positioning on strategic pages. As a result, what we read and see about the industry is like looking through a macro lens: by its very nature, cropped, narrow and limited.

We like to see what is going on around the quieter fringes.

There are now over 140 writers listed in The Foodie Bugle register: some write for the magazine very frequently whilst others have only written once; some do so anonymously and some do so because the website affords them a collective platform upon which editors, publishers, talent agencies and TV producers can see their work and contact them directly.

Yet the stories we all cover are driven by the same underlying enthusiasm:  to showcase and celebrate the very ordinary people in the world of food, drink and blogging who make and do extraordinary things, with no big song and dance, no  limelight and no profiteering. Mahatma Gandhi once said “Be the change you want to see in the world”: if you want to read more about artisan producers, then why not write about your local ones, wherever you live in the world?

For the 10^th edition we are, of course, looking for Christmas stories, and we have already started to hunt down those artisans and places that celebrate this festival with great food and cheery ideas.

We hope you will join us by visiting the website at  http://www.thefoodiebugle.com or following all of us on Twitter : @TheFoodieBugle

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