The passion for food and photography becomes a profession, Vatinee Suvimol at the Festival

The passion for food and photography has turned into a profession. So Vatinee Suvimol, 36 years, "Thai Expat in Italy", from simple foodblogger has become responsible for the project iFood, "the first Italian network born spontaneously, where bloggers they put their faces on it, their hands get dirty, their aprons, their ideas ".

"I am a training lawyer" - says Vaty - "I opened the blog A Thai Pianist in the 2010. I was telling about my childhood memories and my personal "stories". In the 2013, along with other 7 foodbloggers, I opened a group on facebook by the name 'Le Bloggalline '. In a short time we have become 400 ".

A professional platform has been built around this large community of women food bloggers. In fact, in the 2014, on the occasion of a charity event, Vatinee is noticed by the publisher of NetAddiction, who had in mind to create a portal of recipes and articles written by bloggers.

Thus was born iFood, which today has 10 people in the newsroom, 50 freelance contributor and 230 blogger. "Every week we relaunch a certain number of bloggers. The portal has become an opportunity to start professional relationships even outside and take many job opportunities, in close contact with important food companies", adds vaty is will be al Festival of Food Journalism, on the opening day, Thursday 25 February, to take part to the panel entitled "If the city discusses food: the experience of metropolitan diaries".

iFood unites bloggers linked by friendship, passion for food and a code of ethics to which Suvimol has contributed, as a legal entity. Party in March 2015, has about 2 million visits per month. Space for "food and its many nuances: recipes, photographs, books, travels, people, places and stories" as current issues in the field of nutrition, from gluten free to veganism.