http://www.marblehead.net/foley/specifics.html
This blog highlights the importance of maintaining a distance from the microphone to give the recording a sense of space but also to reduce the risk of hearing breathing through the recording. I made sure to do this while recording foley because in my opinion slight distance between the mic and the sound gives the recording a more natural and so easier to mix feel.
http://foley-artistry.blogspot.co.uk/
The very first answer in this interview relates directly to some of the foley that we did, for the dinner scene we bought some saucy pasta and recorded the cutlery sounds using that so that we could get the authentic splashes and squelches from the pasta into the film, we did try for reference what it would sound like on an empty plate and this interview is correct, you can hear the difference massively, the cutlery sounds tinny, and there is a lot more clattering sounds coming from the plate itself without the padding of the food to dampen it.
https://www.sound-ideas.com/Page/what-is-foley.aspx
This final post helped me to get into the right mindset to act out foley. The importance of foley is that you are trying to control the soundscape, so in a way this relates to boom operation aswell. While I was operating the boom mic I was trying to get clear dialogue while avoiding excessive background noise, whereas in foley I am trying to reconstruct all of the noise that I was trying to avoid during filming, except by doing it this was we are able to have better control over the volume and characteristics of each and every sound in the film, giving us the opportunity to create a fuller soundscape with a range of depth and clarity.