Best Female Chef of 2023

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Natalia Rudakova
May 22, 2023

Hey, guys! This is me, Natalia, a.k.a. Chef Rudakova 👩‍🍳 Long time, no see, ha?

Lot’s of time went by since the last issue of The Weekly Snack and lot’s of things changed. We’ve moved back to Canada 🇨🇦, I’ve taken the position of a Head Chef in one of Canada’s best vegetable-forward restaurants and became a mom 👼 More on this in the upcoming life update video 🙃

With all this changes, there’s also a change / an evolution for The Weekly Snack.

This year I’ve decided to focus my digital content around the things I truly care about, and this things are food, cooking, healthy lifestyle and business.

Everyone who knows me personally, knows that I’m always, always, always working on various business projects. In the last years most of my projects where in the space of digital economy: from Social Media to e-commerce to blogging etc.

So, this year I’ve decided to do what I do the best: share my experience, resources & useful tools with people who love food & cooking like I do, and want to make a living out of their passion 🤓

So if you’re a:

  • Food content creator, who want to keep up-to-date with the food & SM trends

  • Food business owner, who wants to successfully use SM to promote your brand

  • Food lover, who wants to get weekly recap on all the cool food content you can enjoy over the weekend

you are gonna love this new Weekly Snack!

Ok, enough for the intro. Let’s get to it already.

Don’t forget to let me know, if you like the new version of The Weekly Snack 😉

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Industry News Digest

🏆 Elena Reygadas has been named The World's Best Female Chef 2023 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants.

Chef Reygadas is the chef behind Rosetta, a restaurant in Mexico City that focuses on Mexico's biodiversity and history.

Her signature dishes are savoy cabbage tacos with pistachio pipián sauce, sweet potato ravioli with matcha and corn tamales with smoked cream.

Chef Reygadas has been recognized for advancing the work of female chefs and believes there is still a lot to do to combat the "macho" culture in the culinary world.

Social Media News Digest

📺 YouTube is the most-watched streaming service for TV in America, with over 150 million people watching.

Therefore, more ad options for advertisers! Now people will see one 30 sec non-skippable ad, instead of two 15 sec ones.

👩‍💻 Finally! More editing tools for Reels.

Here’s a quick summary:

  • Split clips

  • New Reels playback speeds controls

  • Easy clip swapping

⏰ Instagram stories scheduling is becoming a reality.

📍 TikTok will be asking users now to add location to their videos and maybe even review the place.

What does it mean for your business discoverability? Only that with 40% of GenZ using TikTok as the primary source of info when searching for new restaurant recommendations, soon it might be that if your local business is not on TikTok, does it even exist?…

👩‍🎓 Meta wants you to succeed as a creator on their platforms, so it added new educational and insight elements to your professional dashboard.

🗂️ Getting down to business on Instagram. 

🙋‍♀️ You can now create polls in Instagram comments.

⏰ Best times to post on Instagram per industry.

Resources for Digital Food Creators

🍌 Use Google app to identify ingredients.

🤑 Create Shoppable recipes on TikTok and get paid by Instacart Tastemakers program.

🤯 Epic Midjourney prompt formular for Food Photography.

Creator Spotlight

Tora Olsson

Better known by her Instagram name "ToraFloraFood", is a food stylist with a master's degree in food and meal science and a bachelor's degree in gastronomy. All her food creations are plant-based.

Tora challenges vegan cuisine, as she wants to show that vegan food is good, beautiful and for everyone to enjoy.

👉 If you are a Food Content Creator or know a Creator that’s worth mentioning in the next issue of The Weekly Snack, please reply back to this email and send me the details.

This section of the newsletter is FOR YOU! I care & I share 🫶

Video of the week

Things you can pick up on fine-dining just watching this day-in-life of Minibar video 👍

Success Story

$32k per month from curating a food blog, why not?

She spends about 40-60 hours per week on the generation of new content and curation of her websites and generates about 1m page views per month.

Sarah’s main income streams are mostly ad revenue, and a little bit from Amazon affiliates and sponsorships.

And her growth strategy focus is towards serious SEO, email marketing and SM vertical video sharing.

Sounds feasible, or too much work? 🤔

What I’m Watching Right Now

And that’s it for this week!

Let me know (you can reply right back to this email) if you liked this new version of the newsletter or not.

What did you like, what you didn’t and what topics you’d like to have covered more/less of?

Have a good one! 🫶

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