May 09, 2007
Happy Blogday to Me
I forgot to mention that Food Blog is 5 years old this month. That's 82 in blog years.
May 08, 2007
Chicago Food Blogs
So many new food blogs are flooding in these days, that I'm not even going to make excuses or apologies. I'll get a lot of them on the list, but I'm not promising anything.
Here's a quick list of some new Chicago food blogs.
April 08, 2007
Easter
I'm doing a little editing of the food blog list, and I've collected a few interesting Easter food links.
Delicious Days has an intriguing Easter egg idea - baking cake inside eggs.
Ice Cream Ireland makes Ice Cream Easter Eggs
Rubber Slippers in Italy makes Cuddura, a Sicilian egg-topped pastry "prepared for the festival of Easter. After refraining from the consumption of meat, eggs and cheese during the Lenten period, it is interesting to note how much of a role, or more importantly, how plentiful of a role, in which eggs played in the preparation of holiday sweets upon the arrival of Holy Week."
TomaTom in Melbourne, makes home made praline cocoa nut Felchlin chocolate bunnies
February 27, 2007
More food blogs
I can list food blogs from NY or San Francisco all day long, so here's a few from other places in the U.S.
bFeedMe Nashville.
Gastronomic Fight Club Mischief. Mayhem. Soup. Omaha, NE.
Native American Recipes "Recipes and information on Native American food. This is the food and recipes of food eaten preinvasion upto and including current popular Native American food." Montana.
The Slow Cook "An urban insurgent's guide to real food made by hand with care - and sometimes a little humor." District of Columbia.
Urban Girl's Almanac a city girl's guide to fabulous living. Boise, Idaho.
Food blogs
Another feeble attempt to keep the food blog list current with some additions.
Avenue Food Queens NY
Cooking with the Single Guy San Francisco
Dive "Join me as we go spelunking the culinary hole-in-the-walls, the greasy spoons, the lunch counters - all while constantly searching for that diamond in the rough." San Francisco
don't eat alone thoughts on food, faith, family, & friends. Massachusetts. Not totally about food, but his essay on demi-glace and faith should tell you he's worth reading. If you just want the food you can go to don't eat alone: the recipes bread for the journey.
A Finger in Every Pie Spanish Harlem, NY
Habeas Brulee NYC. Execellent photos.
The Short Exact Guide... to Fine Dining in San Francisco.
February 10, 2007
Food Blogs
It's been months since I listed any food blogs here or did any real work on the food blog list. I was going to declare a sort of bankruptcy, like Lawrence Lessig's Email Bankruptcy in regards to the requests so far this year, by throwing them all out and starting from scratch, but I think I can get the emailed ones on the list. Here's some of them that have waited the longest.
Ceres and Bacchus New Paltz NY. She's been bribing me for months to get on the list.
Crumbs Upstate NY.
cucina nicolina San Francisco.
French Kitchen in America "American cooking with a French twist and French classics with an American outlook." Wisconsin.
Home Sick Texan, New York New York. My favorite among this list. Tasty photogrpahy and recipes that make me want to make them, except fo the Chocolate Frito pie, although it sounds intriguing.
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich Blog "Dedicated to the discussion of the deep-fried breaded pork tenderloin sandwich, the pursuit of them and whatever may come from the pursuit."
sf foodie the gluten-free culinary adventures of Jan and Micki. San Francisco. At the moment they're making me jealous with reports from New Zealand.
Writing At The Kitchen Table Essex, UK.
YummySF San Francisco.
November 14, 2006
Illinois Food Blogs
Some Illinois food blogs I don't have on the list:
Champaign Taste Cooking and eating in East-Central Illinois. Champaign IL
Chicago Foodies Chicago Restaurants, Home Cuisine, & the Food Scene.
The Food Chain The Chicago Reader's new Food Blog.
Little Spatula Naperville, Illinois
FarmGate University of Illinois extension's farmer blog
The Outdated Kitchen Chicago IL
November 10, 2006
California food blogs
I was preparing a list of blogs to update my food blog list when I realized how many California (mostly LA) blogs I needed to add. Look at 'em all! And I'm sure there's tons more.
Colleen Cuisine Los Angeles. Who let's us know November 11th, is National Pocky Day!
The Epicurious Wanderer Orange County Restaurant Reviews - Food, Life, and Fun in Orange County
LA Food Crazy Los Angeles.
Potatomato Los Angeles.
Rameniac! worldwide noodling! Along with Rameniac's B-sides, or the non-ramen chronicles. Los Angeles.
The Survival Gourmet A Los Angeles caterer's blog about what's for dinner tonight.
Triplecreme
Eating through the westside with the photos to prove it. Los Angeles
Tuna Toast Los Angeles
What did you eat? California
November 06, 2006
Food blogs
Some food blogs with excellent photography that you may or may not have heard of (I hadn't).
Gattina New Jersey
Oishii Eats Yummy LA.
Mikey Hates Everything Los Angeles. With a recent trip to Europe.
Spicyana, Oregon, US
October 27, 2006
More themed food blogs
More food blogs with a theme
Cluck! "learning about and practicing sustainability in our lifestyle. We love fresh eggs and have wanted to have our own backyard chickens for several years. This blog is the story of our experience ordering baby chicks and raising them up." Western North Carolina.
Cupcake Bakeshop San Francisco.
Food Cost Control "A small corner of the web universe developed to help food cost wizards improve their craft." An interesting look into the profit-making side of the food business. I can name many restaurants ruined when they implemented tight food portion and cost controls, so it's quite a tightrope between mantaining quality and quantity.
Mondo Fruitcake "... fruitcake RULES!!!"
Retro Recipe Challenge Blog "a celebration of retro food and retro recipes, both delicious, like Mom's meatloaf, and disgusting, like benedictish frankwiches."
Yogurtland Mostly Turkish recipes.
October 23, 2006
Themed Food Blogs
Here are some food blogs with themes.
Illinois Pancakes "We have a mission and we're sticking to it. And that mission is simple: hit up as many pancake restaurants in our nation's 21st state as we can."
Naturally! Macrobiotic Living, Honolulu.
Pacific Northwest Cheese Project "All about Pacific Northwest cheese, cheesemakers and other cheese related notions."
UK Wines online "UKWinesOnline - your guide to online independent wine and drink merchants in the UK. Brought to you by Spittoon and FrenchDuck."
October 20, 2006
Food blogs
I'm slowly catching up on two months worth of requests to get on my list of food blogs. Here are my recent top picks. Stay tuned for many more.
Dumneazu "Ethnomusicological Eating East of Everywhere." Budapest, Hungary
James Oseland, editor-in-chief of Saveur has an interesting food site. Not really a full blown blog, with only one entry per month, but it's still worth checking out with pretty photos and an archive of his writings.
Geeky Gourmet "Thoughts about food and technology by computer geeks who love to cook."
Raw Food, Right Now! "The Raw Food Blog for People Who Live in the Real World"
Ruhlman Food author Michael Ruhlman, Cleveland, Ohio. We enjoyed Ruhlman's guest blogging at Megnut, and apparently he enjoyed it enough to start his own.
Spicelines.com Recently had an excellent post on ras al hanout, including several recipes for the king of spice blends.
Check out the World Bread day Roundup found at Morsels & Musings Sydney.
September 18, 2006
Food blogs around the world
Some English language blogs from around the world.
Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef Hackney in London's East End
Blue Lotus "Life in exotic suburban Tokyo." Japan
The Culinary Chase "From a peripatetic Canadian based in Hong Kong, discovering Asia and its food culture with three in-built food critics in the form of a discerning husband, growing son and daughter."
EatNZ Canterbury, New Zealand
Field to Feast "Africa-inspired writing, cooking and eating" Harare, Zimbabwe
Forage "Find. Eat." Pembrokeshire, Great Britain
London Food London
Milk and Cookies Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Phnomenon "A blog about food and drink in Cambodia" Phnom Penh
Real Thai Bangkok, Thailand
TummyRumble London
September 08, 2006
American Food Blogs
Some food blogs from around the US.
The Bowdoin Gourmet gives readers an inside look at Bowdoin College’s dinning services, which are widely regarded as being one of the premiere college food services in the country. Brunswick, Maine.
Columbus Foodie Columbus Ohio
Cooking Vintage "This is a place for me to explore recipes from my collection of old and vintage cookbooks" Cleveland, Ohio
Fauren.org Brooklyn, NY
Food Notebook Silicon Valley, CA
Jalapeno Girl Mission District, SF, CA
Just Braise Astoria NY
No Loitering "Hellfire wrapped culinary insights straight from the streets of SF, CA"
noodletown Kansas City, Missouri
NYfork.com Manhattan "new trends, news of restaurant openings, and insider gossip"
100 Tomato Plants, Tennessee
Pie Day Friday Pennsylvania
Rasa Malaysia "is a culinary journey through Malaysia's rich, complex, and intoxicating gastronomic delights - a taste of all the flavors of Asia. Rasa is a Malay word. Derived originally from Sankrit, it means 'taste.'" Irvine, California. This is a new one to keep on eye on - great looking recipes.
The Tiny Banquet Committee "is a standing committee that was self-appointed to consider and comment on issues of gastronomy, with particular attention devoted to the small but festive banquets produced and consumed in the official Committee kitchen". New York, New York
Tommy Eats "New Jersey-centric" Has a recent review of Chicago featuring some impressive eating and drinking. Northern NJ
August 31, 2006
Blog Day
It's blog day so I give you a few new food blogs.
Brotherhood of the Bean "Coffee Cultists of the World Unite!" "Pursuing the best coffee & coffee related products since 2006. Unbiased opinions & reviews from people that love coffee..." Aurora Il. The Brotherhood points us to things like the Java-Log, a fireplace log made out of coffee.
The Jesuit Gourmet "Gourmandise is a capital offense. So, therefore, my brothers, let us guard against being gourmands. Let's be gourmets.
—Saint Ignatius of Loyola"
C.H.I.C Library A blog from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago's Library.
Sub-Zero Wine Blog "Insights and advice on all things wine" From the refrigerator people.
And to be international, here's a list of some Top European Food Blogs, mostly Dutch.
August 14, 2006
Food blogs
It's now several months since I've highlighted any new food blogs here. I got behind and the big pile-up of blogs got out-of-hand. I may have to declare "request bankruptcy" and start from scratch. (That concept comes from Lawrence Lessig and his 'email bankruptcy'). For now I'm just going to work backwards, since the latest crop has some really good ones. I know I'm going to dissapoint some bloggers whove asked months earlier, but I'll eventually get around to most of them.
Cooking Up a Story "A weekly video Blog about food and people"
Culinary Concoctions by Peabody Huge URL, huge photos. Seattle.
Dejamo's Distracted "I started out with a Knitting Blog, but got distracted by food and cooking. While I still knit, I mostly talk about cooking." Chicago.
Eat, the only mother/son food blog on the internet? Mom posts from Pittsburgh, her son, who works at the French Culinary Institute, posts from New York.
Erin's Kitchen Los Angeles.
The Food Ass "I love food. My friends say I am a total ass about it, I dont let them buy yellow mustard. (well, I try)"
Meals I Have Eaten Chicago
Nika's Culinaria - Eat With Your Eyes Culinary Photography
On the Wine Trail in Italy "Between Italy and America"
July 20, 2006
Chicago Food Blogs
In the interest of adding some completeness to the last post, here's all the Chicago Food Blogs I know about. Unlike most of my listings, some of these are quite dormant or officially retired, but the archives are still around.
At Our Table Dormant.
Bunny Pie
Chicago Foodies
Eat Chicago
The City That Eats
Fancy Toast
Food Blog
fuckcorporategroceries explores the independent markets. j3s has retired this project, but some archives are still there.
Hungry Magazine
Making of a restaurant Long retired, but worth the read.
Olive and Mason eat Chicago Lunch reviews in the Streeterville area of Chicago. Dormant.
Pastry Life Dormant.
Pro Bono Baker
Skillet Doux
Too Many Chefs One of the Many Chefs is from Chicago.
Trans Fatty Blog Dormant, or maybe they've banned blogging about it too.
Vital information from one of the most knowledgable Chicago Chowhounds.
And check out the food archives of Gapers Block, Chicagoist and Metroblogging Chicago.
July 11, 2006
Food blogs
Some really good food blogs to check out.
Skillet Doux Chicago. He recently did an excellent review of Alinea, with great photography.
Speaking of Chicago, I found this Chicago Wine Shop Google map over at Dr. Vino who has a blog
Ethicurean An eater of tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical — S/O/L/E foods, for short. San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and Austin
Remarkable Palate By Chef Mark Tafoya. NY. Also includes a podcast.
Epi-log, a food blog from Epicurious
I know all you people that requested inclusion feel like I'm ignoring you, there will come a day when I'll publish a massive list.
June 22, 2006
More great food blogs
Again I ignore the big list of blogs who've requested inclusion to higlight some food blogs that rise above. Eventually I'll get a chance to look at the rest (I've got no doubt they probably include ones as good as the following), and get them included on the list.
Until then check these out:
Lobstersquad a food blog with drawings. By an illustrator in Madrid, this one will no doubt be very popular not only because of the art, but because of the perspective on Spanish food.
Cookbook 411 "Cooking by the Books". Excellent photography. Check out her Food Photography blog too - Still Life With...
Some of the blogs listed below I found in recent travels through other blogrolls, but they all were on Still Life's list. She must know where to look. There's plenty other great blogs for you to check out there.
acuriousmix Singapore. Another with excellent photography.
Bron Marshall "Classic and Creative Cuisine". NZ. I don't know how such an excellent food blog can hide under my radar. Giant, beautiful photos and creative and inspiring recipes.
Evil Jungle Prince This one is unique because of the author's pursuit of the exoctic. "...my hobby might appropriately be titled Cooking for the Suburban Savage. Just as the military men of the mid-century America period brought home slightly skewed visions of the "exotic" outside world and cultivated them in the remote privacy of their suburban backyards and bachelor pads, cooking for me is also an escape of sorts." The photography is topnotch as well.
Fancy Toast A new pretty blog from Chicago.
I've run into the beautiful Italian blog FiordiZucca before, but now it's in English! Fiordizucca goes English.
The Wine Offensive "anecdotes for the gourmet proletariat" "a surly, dissonant voice in opposition to the glossy magazine culture of food and the moneyed critocracy of wine." Where the hell have I been to have missed this one? As informative as it is hilarious (or, depending on your veiwpoint, offensive).
June 13, 2006
Food blogs
My list of food blogs is in sad shape. It's riddled with link rot and there's loads of good blogs piling up trying to get on. Rather than put it off any longer, here's some of them that for some reason have risen to the top. Don't feel bad if you're not included, I have to admit I haven't even glanced at the requests of gotten in the last couple of weeks.
Ice Cream Ireland all about making, eating, pondering about and enjoying sweet things by an Irish ice cream man and chocoholic in Dingle, Ireland with recipes included."
I include this one because it reminds my of an experiment I was witness to in the Celtic Knot. I think I've had a Guinness float (vanilla ice cream and Guinness) but this time it was made with Mackeson Triple Stout. Mackeson is from the London brewery Whitbread. "Wait?" you say, "An English beer in an Irish Ice cream reference?" Not to worry, the stuff is contract brewed here in the USA by Boston Beer Company. Anyway, Mackeson is a perfect dessert stout, thick with chocolaty, coffee and cream essences. It's sweet with about being cloying. Poured over vanilla ice cream it's delicious - but I suggested throwing in a shot of Bailey's - and it became utterly delicious. Sadly, they're not carrying Mackeson at the moment.
Control+Alt+Chicken "is a new form of cooking show... one in which the chefs don't know how to cook!" This videocast features Alex Albrecht of Diggnation fame (the hilarious geek-oriented beer-drinking podcast).
The first lady of the blogosphere, Megnut is an all food blog now. A true weblog, done by one of the best at the craft. She's recently reviewed Alinea.
And a few of Italian-themed food blogs and one I've been promising to get on for months now:
Cucina Bella "Celebrating everyday food for everyday people" Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
My Life Italian Naples, Italy
Lucullian Delights Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
Rubber Slippers in Italy Provincia di Lecco, Lombardia, Italy
March 27, 2006
Food Blogs
I've skipped almost a month of updating the list of food blogs, so I'm way behind. Here's a list of the ones I either continually forget to add, or that deserve a little extra attention. I always believe that drinks and dives deserve extra attention.
The Art of Drink "An exploration of cocktails, spirits, bartending and mixology."
Cardamom Addict "Omnivorous ramblings by a habitual eater."
Dive: "Every town has one. Surely, you've been to one. Maybe you even work in one. Against better judgment, we'll venture into and eat at the places our ears, eyes, and nose instinctively warn us against. Hi! I'm Kevin. Join me as we go spelunking the culinary hole-in-the-walls, the greasy spoons, the roach coaches - all while constantly searching for that diamond in the rough. So hold on to your seats, cause it's about to get ugly."
Kinki Style An American culinary student in Japan.
Kitchen Sister "Cooking up Ideas for Dinner
wannabeTVchef "Written by chef & food writer Kevin Ashton who has cooked around the world for the rich & famous."
Word of Mouth "Pete Cherches blogs under duress about food, travel and other stuff."
Much more to come, don't panic if you haven't been mentioned yet.
February 19, 2006
Another new kid food blogging
Some kid named Frank Bruni has a blog now. I think it's cute that a little east coast hometown paper is joining our well-established food blogging community. I guess he's going to copy the rest of us and try to review New York restaurants.
I joke of course, I welcome him into the food blog community. I'll be reading him and hoping he'll be answering some of the great comments he's getting. Although I'm a little less concerned about his weight than some people are.
February 18, 2006
Food blogs
Here's some food blogs to put on my list of food blogs.
Andrea's Recipe Box "a collection of favorite recipes and musings on food and cooking"
Black Salt British Columbia.
Brian Preston-Campbell "Does a food stylist in New York really need to write a blog?"
Bribe Me with a Muffin "Baking, cooking, and trekking across the city of Boston in search of the ultimate food experience: musings of a restless twenty-four year old."
Candy Addict "Candy news, views, and reviews." Holly Springs, NC.
Exploring the Silver Spoon "Il cucchiaio d’argento (The Silver Spoon) has been referred to as the bible of authentic Italian cooking and boasts 2000+ recipes! This is the tantalizing tale of my travels through each and every recipe that I try."
Food for thought Victoria, Australia.
Here and There "Random musings about my wee chocolate business, cooking, gardening in season, my travels and other stuff when the spirit moves me" From my home town of Somerset NJ.
Kishko "chatter about olfactive, visual and taste bud experiences in Italy" Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
Little bouffe "Cooking without a kitchen."
Queen of the Kitchen Washington, United States
The Sour Patch "A dollop of sweet and a pinch of sour from a Toronto kitchen…"
Tasting, Drinking & Cooking Fremont CA.
28 Cooks "The culinary and winemaking talents of a 28-year old "near" vegetarian."
Web Sorceress "A Journey through Food and Wine In That Gathering Place of Mine."
January 31, 2006
Food Blogs
I'm falling behind on adding to the food blog list. Forgive me If I missed you, I'm getting there.
The Bloated Belly "Comments on consumption..." St. Paul, MN
Cookin' With Cyndi Forest Falls, California
Cooking With Kilby "... and other adventures in the Ottawa food scene"
Cream Puffs in Venice "Making my food dreams come true..." Toronto
The Finicky Lawyer "Dulling the Pain With Food and Wine. Present Sense Impressions and Past Recollections Recorded by a Common Diner."
Fish and Seafood Weblog "Hundreds of tried and true fish and seafood recipes and fish talks."
Dessert First "a passion for pastry"
Guinnah Vegetarian cooking
Hungry In Hogtown
This blog is about our love of food -- shopping for it, cooking it, and eating it. It's also about the rewards and challenges of pursuing this passion in Toronto, our home.
Hungry Magazine, from Chicago, featuring podcast interviews with chefs.
A Kitchen Fantastic "Everything and the kitchen sink"
The Laughing Gastronome, Wellington, New Zealand
My Dinner "- One man's daily bread: A Dietary Barometer of my Emotional State"
Nina's kitchen Sweden
Passionate Eater
California
Trivialissimo Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Yummy Banana is a blog about the bananas that we love.
Zen Kimchi Korean Food Journal
January 01, 2006
A few food blogs
Just a few food blogs to add to the food blog list. Quite a few more to come.
Bitchin' in the Kitchen with Rosie "I like food. I like bitchin'. I like making sure eveyone hears about both frequently. Hence, the blog." Columbus, Ohio.
Cakehead "Sweet news for food heads"
Chilefire Is this the only food blog to cooking in a galley on a yacht? Washington DC.
Dan's Kitchen Pasadena, California
Eat, Drink & Be Merry West Los Angeles, California
The food pornographer "Food at its porniest."
Haverchuk "a little bit kosher, mostly treyf"
The Hungry Rose "Exploring food in New York City, one day at a time."
Just Braise "Succulence. This is the goal of braising; it is the aim toward which one strives, from the very begining, and it is the direction in which all techniques and methods lead. " Astoria, NY.
Live To Nibble "Experiencing life one small bite at a time" Atlanta, Georgia.
Madison A to Z "we decided to eat at every restaurant in Madison in alphabetical order"
Podchef Show "The podcast about cooking, food, and the politics of food."
SaltShaker "Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life."
ToastPoint "A hymn of praise to foie gras...and Cheetos." Washington, DC
December 12, 2005
Food Blogs
For my duties for this year's food blog awards, I'm reading through countless excellent blogs by people I swear are moonlighting from their cooking magazine jobs or are hiring pastry chefs, restaurant crews and photo studios to do their blogs for them, and the even more infinite blogs by regular people who do an amazing job of recording their culinary adventures with words and photos. As you might imagine, I'm finding lots of blogs not on my list. Here's the first flood of them.
The Accidental Scientist "a scientist noshing and fumbling her way through the food world" Eugene, Oregon.
Baking for Britain London
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News
"Weight loss, diet, nutrition, and food news from around the web."
An Electronic Restaurant by Masterchef "Noodle Cook" Australia.
Expired Foods "It Smells Alright to Us - All that's fit (or unfit) to report when it comes to food, cooking recipes, beer, and more..."
Fruitful Vegan "A Strange Fruit Indeed" Canada
Gastronomy Domine "Recipes, reviews and the ruination of my figure". Cambridge, UK
The Girl Who Ate Everything NYC
Glorious Food and Wine Brussels, Belgium
Greedy Goose/ Singapore. Nice photography.
The Kitchen part of the Apartment Therapy blog family.
KokBlog East Village, New York City. Lovely illustrations.
Mango & Ginger "a blog about loving food". Baltimore, Maryland
Not Your Regular Deep Fried Mars Bar "A blog for hungry people made by hungry people... Go figure!" Woodstock
UK.
Slurp & Burp Ottawa, Canada
Tarting It Up Washington, D.C.
Tham Jiak "The blog title "Tham Jiak" which means in some way "love to eat" in hokkien". Malaysia.
December 06, 2005
Themed food blogs
A short break from my Arizona reviews to make a feeble attempt to catch up with some food blogs.
There's lots of more I'll get to in a bit, but here are some themed blogs.
Ag Moment "A little agriculture news to go with your morning coffee"
The Chippie "My particularly refined taste in chips has been cultivated by years of eating chips. I have no formal training in food, chip making or chip consumption. Sadly, no one pays me to eat chips." Austin, Texas.
Confessions of a Butcher "I know all about your meat"
The Forklift The authors wrote a cookbook with methods and recipes for dealing with the large portions bought from warehouse food stores, now they have a blog.
Opinionated About Dining "a guide to where to eat and why you should eat there" There's an enormous amount of restaurant info here, and I like his reviews and writing. However I'm going to be opinionated about his graphics and photography. We've all heard the discussions before about flash photography in fine dining rooms, and putting aside the aerial photography style of shooting dishes, what will get this guy banned is his use of enlarged pixelated, aliased, artifact-filled restaurant logos. It's sure to upset restaurants that spend as much on designers and Identity as they do on a year's supply of foie gras. Despite my opinions, you should check out his photo albums of great dishes and chefs.
Kitchen Contraptions.com "is a blog dedicated to everything you need to make your cooking experience better!" One of those very commercial blogs in the BlogPire network, but a great way to find cool things like Temperature Controlled Butter Dishes and Coffee Presses for Nalgene Water Bottles.
The Cooking News Also on the BlogPire network.
November 11, 2005
More Food Blogs
A few more food blogs.
Olive and Mason eat Chicago, "this blog chronicles the betting and lunching adventures of olive and mason, who work together in an office (and are secretly dating)." Lunch reviews in the Streeterville area of Chicago. Streeterville has always been a bit of a mystery to me, so I'll be reading this one regularly. The area is such a mystery to me that I didn't even know there was an Elephant and Castle on East Huron, steps away from the Apple 'Cathedral' on Michigan Ave. I've eaten at the E & C on Adams a while back, and have been wanting to go back. While nobody beats Debbie's Fish And Chips at the Celtic Knot, E and C has a unique fish batter - almost like an airy donut since it's so light and sweet.
Asian Vegan "Journey in the creation of a restaurant" Portland
Cooking Fire Traditions of the Global Kitchen "a meditation on how to regain some of the lost ground without surrendering the SubZeros, CuisinArts, and Viking Stoves that define the modern kitchen: ways to infuse cooking with tradition." This is one of those particularly good blogs, with excellent photography and interesting explorations.
An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink "throwing ourselves on the grenade of bad food to save you"
Fine Dining Solutions "A Personal Chef Commentary: Recipes, Ingredient Discussion & Reviews of Local Markets & Restaurants" DC.
In a Fancy Glass
you don't need to save the crystal for a special day, even water tastes better in a 'Fancy Glass'" An American in Tokyo.
Plantstalkers "we slay vegetables"
Renaissance Culinaire "A pastry student, blogging my way to Pastry Chefdom." Portland
The Way The Cookie Crumbles "the life and death of my culinary endeavors"
November 09, 2005
Food Blogs
Blog Appetit "Guaranteed Fresh Food News, Muse and Views with Recipes" California.
The College Food Experiment Prince Edward Island, Canada
Comfort Food "Because it's a cold, cruel world out there, and good food's the best comfort."
Cake and Commerce "One girl's salt is another girl's fleur de sel"
Foodie Universe "Celebrating and Critiquing One of Life's Necessary Pleasures" Los Angeles.
Give Me Some Food "a lot of food and a little culture in San Francisco and beyond"
The Hampton Smoker has lots of good BBQ links.
Hope it's good! "Broadening my Horizons by Broadening my Palate" Mass.
In Mol Araan Food, cooking, words, some in Yiddish
Kitchen Blog Canada.
Ole Smokey's BBQ Weblog "My place on the World Wide Web to discuss anything and everything - BBQ! Come on in and enjoy." Alabama.
The Rock 'n' Roll Kitchen..."you know i got sole.." Derby, United Kingdom
Sailu's Food - Indian Recipes , Home Remedies & Ayurvedic Cooking
Stalking the Waiter "Riffing on foods, flavors and methods since...no, that would be telling." SF Bay Area.
Tea Guy Speaks Pennsylvania
zand food blog: the only REAL flog on the internet "This blog keeps track of what I eat! read this often if you are interested in what I eat." The lost, classic style of blogging with posts like: "i bought a spatula".
October 21, 2005
Food Blogs
Beyond Salmon "Everything you ever wanted to know about buying and cooking fish." With lots of bacon, burrito and pizza blogs, it's about time there's a fish one.
Chez Christine "Diaries of a Le Cordon Bleu Paris Student. Join me on my adventures!" It looks like she's slowly moving her content from a Xanga site. Give her time, she's got class to attend.
A curious mix Singapore
The food pornographer "Food at its porniest."
haverchuk "a little bit kosher, mostly treyf"
Modern Girls Kitchen "Bake Your Cake and Eat It Too...Tasteful Tips for the High-Heeled" Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Stalking the Waiter "Riffing on foods, flavors and methods since...no, that would be telling." California Wine Country north of San Francisco.
ToastPoint "A hymn of praise to foie gras...and Cheetos." Washington, DC
October 17, 2005
Food Blogs
I'm falling behind trying to keep up with the food blogs. Don't fret if you've asked and aren't on yet.
Cookie Madness! Austin TX
Eating Asia Kuala Lumpur. Vital information says "The writer of this blog has a special place in the annals of Chicago Chowhounds. Once upon a time, our palates were shaded, shaded by our menu limitations. We knew a place as simple as Yum Thai in Forest Park seemed to offer treats beyond its stated choices. In fact, there was a secret menu, but a menu no one could actually read. Awfully hungry, we posted the menu on the Internet, seeking the kindness of a stranger who would tell us what to eat. e.e. cumming's like foodfirst came to our rescue. From the across the sea, she translated our Yum Thai menu and then later Spoon Thai's. It's been fun eatin' every since."
A Few of My Favourite Things! Melbourne, Australia.
Green Goddesses Share their Eco-Wisdom "I share my experiences and the experiences of my friends as we try to develop a practical but environmentally friendly lifestyle."
Hooked on Heat "Lots of spice, and everything nice...that's what Indian food is made of!"
Love in the Time of Coriander Berkeley, CA
Lucullian delights "- an Italian experience"
MaverickEats "records some of the culinary adventures of the farmers at Maverick Farms. Devoted to the pleasures of the table, MaverickEats believes a revolution against industrial food will gain force when people reclaim the habit of eating well."
My French Cuisine "As a proud member of the "food-centric" community, I couldn't resist: I had to share some of my favorite recipes, a few tips that will make the difference, menu ideas, etc..." Sunnyvale, California.
Plate Of The Day "A Blog On The Daily Encounters With Food And The Memorable Experiences Eating It.
Tummy Treasure "I love my kids and I love to cook. And although sometimes I may be tempted to cook my kids...I promise to never combine the two." Wisconsin.
September 21, 2005
More food blogs
Food blogs with a theme.
The Art of the Buffet "OR All You Can Eat is Not a Challenge"
The Breakfast Bowl "Cereal! This blog is about our favorite breakfast food, and the important role that it plays in our culture. Special attention will be given to cereal news, and to the marketing of cereals through memorable characters, creative boxes, and attractive promotions."
Crash Test Kitchen Not just a blog, but a vlog! (video blog).
eggbaconchipsandbeans Done by the same guy who does a good place for a cup of tea and a think.
french wine a day "A great french wine, everyday"
Global Gastronomy "Recipes and information about food around the world" Alphabetically by country.
Liquor Snob - News and tips on all things alcoholic, including beer and wine, breathalyzers, cocktails and spirits; plus drink recipes, booze reviews and more. All the news that's fit to drink.
Food blogs from around the world
Don't fret if you've asked to be included, and haven't yet. I'm breaking down new food blogs I've found and all the requests to make more thematic posts. Here are some international, English-speaking food blogs. Most of these courtesy of World on a Plate's International World of Food Blogs
An endless banquet Montreal.
Café of the East China.
Confessions of a serial griller England.
80 Breakfasts Manila, Philippines
A Few of My Favourite Things! Melbourne, Australia.
The Food Palate Previously known as Writing On A Paper Napkin. Sydney.
Kate Hill's French Kitchen Adventures "Think of Mark Twain-in an apron, traveling the canals and rivers of France, looking for the behind-the-scenes stories of good French food." What a great life.
(Lima) Beans and Delhi Cha(a)t "All things FOOD from Peru and India."
Nancyland Vancouver BC.
Pacific Palate Pacific Coast of British Columbia.
Only Slightly Pretentious Food Singapore.
Over a Tuscan Stove Certaldo, Italy.
Sydney Food Diary "One couple's quest to eat their way through Sydney, Australia."
Without Garnish Pasadena, California.
September 15, 2005
Food Blogs
Catching up on more blogs for the food blog list.
Algerian Cuisine Cuisine Algerienne
Balmy Duck reviews of box cake mixes.
Big Sweet Tooth Chicago.
Chilepepper and spice "Spice up your life!" Linghem, Sweden.
Eats and Giggles LA.
The Flying Apple Vienna, Austria.
Epiculinary Chicago.
Exclusively Food Australia.
The Holy Crepe "Our aim is to provide weekly commentary on the food world, and whatever other worlds intersect. We also seek to lower the quality of discourse on food commentary in general.
Indy Foodie "Dedicated to the city with more chain restaurants than you can shake a stick at (what does that mean anyway?) I will be sharing my thoughts on cooking, dining, and just about whatever I feel like."
In Praise of Sardines San Francisco.
The Modern Babylon "A miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries." London.
Mona's Apple "A poor girl's guide to NYC restaurants, a NYC restaurant blog, a collection of rants and raves on the NYC dining experience."
Tomatom Melbourne.
s'kat and the food "It's all about the food in the 'blues'... yes, that exciting culinary niche of Virginia known as Newport News."
Veggie Way Algiers, Algeria.
The Wednesday Chef "A Food Section Face-Off" "...borne out of my spending too much time searching fruitlessly for reliable information on the recipes published each Wednesday in the food sections of the New York Times and the L. A. Times. Do the recipes really work? Which food writer has the best ideas? Is the newspapers' feud for "Best Food Section in America" just in my imagination, or do they compete with each other from week to week?"
Zen Foodism San Diego.
August 25, 2005
Food blogging advice
Amateur Gourmet has reached his 1000th post and it's called How to Start a Food Blog. He's got some good advice for you fledgling bloggers. For lots more detailed advice on food blogging, visit the Food Blog S'cool.
I could spout on here with advice and tips for new bloggers, but the Amateur Gourmet (certainly not an amateur blogger after being that prolific) covers the most important part of blogging - what you get out of it. It's been said before, blogging helps you become a more knowledgeable writer, a better communicator and in the case of food blogging, a better cook and a better photographer.
I recently made the argument against setting popularity as a goal for blogging, but that doesn't mean you can't try for greatness, or a book deal. But with the food bloggers population increasing exponentially, you will really have to shine above all the rest.
Here's a few tips I don't see in many blog advice posts:
Keep it short. The classic blog post is short, two paragraphs at most. Complicated recipes and 12 course restaurant reviews are obviously going to take more, but if you post essays that run 4 screen-page scrolls every time, readers will start to skim posts. Reread and edit anything that's redundant, repetitive and that you've already said twice. And please people, use the ≤p≥tag. 70 sentence paragraphs are easy to write, but impossible to read. And while I'm at it, use a period once in awhile.
Use some personality. Don't be afraid to be opinionated, both on your blog and on others, but be respectable, reasonable and likable. People with character become celebrities, or at least they become memorable. That cake recipe that reads the same as a Betty Crooker cookbook isn't going to make you likable no matter how good it is.
Link, link, link. Links are the currency of the web. So spend. You will be paid back with interest. Link to other bloggers, food products you find interesting, the best recipes, food information etc. It's not like there's nothing out here to link to. After you've written a recipe look at the words you've used and do some googling, you're guaranteed to find something interesting and useful for your readers. Besides all that, links give readers' eyes something to fall on if they are skimming, and may pull them into reading in depth.
August 24, 2005
More food blogs
Yet more food blogs for the list. Don't feel bad if you asked to be included and aren't on yet, they'll be another installment soon.
Austin Food Data Bank Austin restaurant reviews
Bibliocook Christchurch, New Zealand.
Everybody Likes Sandwiches British Columbia, Canada
Fork This "food, drink, places"
French Food & Lavender "Information, opinions and other musings on French Food, Lavender and related French topics from the owner of Splendid Palate. An informative resource on French food, lavender, France, French cuisine and the French country lifestyle."
Garlicster "is a blog about all things garlic. It contains links to garlic recipes and garlic lovers."
The Hungry Blogger "Where Isabella will share her most intimate thoughts on food, poetry,and la vita bella." Boston.
Makan Kings Kuala Lumpur, KL, Malaysia
Mantia's Musings "A few thoughts on cooking, eating and the world of food from Mantia's International Foods" Memphis, Tennessee
My Favourite Plum Melbourne, Australia
nami-nami An Estonian foodie in Edinburgh, Scotland
One Whole Clove "The sweet and savory experiments of a kitchen addiction."
On the Farm Truffles and Stuff "a New Zealand truffle grower and writer. It's mostly about truffles, and growing them in New Zealand, but there's other stuff too..."
Sauté "(from the French sauter: to leap) holds a special place for me in cooking. I can think of no more aggressively connected act of cooking than saute: making the food leap from the pan. Only exquisite knifework better exemplifies culinary skill, but of course, knifework is prep." Austin, Texas.
August 07, 2005
More food blogs
Yet even more food blogs to add to the list.
Don't feel bad if you asked, but haven't been included yet - I'm catching up.
The Baker's Rack "Because my passion is baking" West Texas.
BBQ Junkie is a blog that focuses on what’s happening in the Southern California barbecue scene.
Beauty, Joy, Food "a celebration of food, health, and literature" Florida.
Cook & Eat: attempts of a pseudo chef Perth, Australia.
Foo(d) Bar: Yet Another Foodie Blog
Gluten-free Girl "Food, glorious food.... And now, a glorious life, free of gluten. After a recent bout of horrible pain and not being able to eat--one of a series of inexplicable medical emergencies in the last few years--I was finally diagnosed with celiac disease. Now, I feel better than I ever have before. This is an imperfect record of being gluten-free, and alive." Read her post "what the heck is gluten anyway?" to learn what and where it is. Seattle.
Knife Skills, a chef-in-training "Diary of a career change: From The Office to The Kitchen." Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kayak Soup Vancouver, BC, Canada
okay noodle "a blog of our thoughts on the best places to dine in the San Gabriel valley along with the rest of Los Angeles county."
Poco-cocoa "chocolate covered blog"
Rate a Restaurant Los Angeles (with a few reviews outside L.A. too).
A Spicy Meatball "My other car is a Kitchen Aid" Los Angeles, California.
August 02, 2005
More food blogs
I was just going to do a post on brand new (a couple of months or less) food blogs, but as I compile, I keep finding lots of them that have been around for 6 months or more. I'm just going to list all my current additions before they get out of hand. Don't feel bad if you asked to be included and I missed you, there's more coming.
Bitter Greens Journal "This blog will serve as a running critique of industrial agriculture, a clearinghouse for info on sustainable farming, and a working manifesto for a liberation politics based on food." Read the excellent recent post on Chow Hound Jim Leff and the "political economy of flavor".
Burritophile Burrito review blog. Started when a burritophile found himself in Lincoln NE, wishing there was a place to look up the best burrito in town. "Because it's Lincoln, the closest burrito would probably be in Chicago, but the idea itself was pretty neat." On the about page the FAQ asks what they think of wraps - "Wraps may be a subversive tool of the Christian Coalition, or Satan, or both. For more on wraps, read Things That Are Not Burritos."
Candyblog "A blog about candy, things made with sugar, things made with chocolate, you get the idea ... these are my reviews of candy that I've tried recently."
Cooking in the 'Cuse "Adventures of a foodie in Syracuse and Central New York"
Culinary in the Desert Phoenix AZ.
Eating New Jersey "Devoted to the great foods of New Jersey"
Farmgirl Fare "A taste of country living without leaving home. Food writing & recipes, farm life tidbits, news from the organic heirloom garden & greenhouse, and step-by-step progress as I create a small artisan bread bakery--all from my 240-acre remote Missouri farm"
Feasting in Phoenix "the random thoughts and reviews of Phoenix metro restaurants by Seth Chadwick, a native of the Valley of the Sun."
Food Beam "The food i love, the food i cook..."
Food is nice North East England
Gourmet Club SignOnSanDiego's Food Blog
I'm Mad and I Eat "Who says food and politics don't taste good together?" Santa Venetia, California
Jam Faced "One Man and His Kitchen - Mis-adventures in Cooking and Eating"
James' food "Pictures of my food. The stuff I eat and the things I make with recipes and tips. Plus maybe some restaurant reviews."
Kalyn's Kitchen "my hybrid food blog, where you will find recipes for truly delicious food that just happens to be low carb."
Kuidaore "Cooking & eating to surfeited collapse" Singapore
Lunch on Friday A bunch of guys use a lunch randomizer to figure out where to eat for lunch and blog about it. The random(lunch) script is fun to play with, just enter your zip code and go eat.
Once Upon a Feast "For me, food has always been about much more than just throwing a bunch of ingredients together. Food is like music. It can sustain us through difficult times and make us smile, just like hearing a melody from a special time. It is about nurturing the soul and sharing special moments with those we love." Toronto, Canada
Piggy's Cooking Journal "... food, other stuff and more food..."
Potlikker "filling a void in southern food blogging."
San Francisco Gourmet "For connoisseurs of fine dining and exquisite food in the Bay Area"
What's Cooking in Carolina? "Tips for party planning, theme parties, weddings, menus, recipes and decorating tips to give swank parties or dinners that delight your guests with beautiful table settings, floral arrangements and creative gourmet food." North Carolina.
Ya Rayi Our Rai
"The meanings of rai: a thought, an opinion, a judgement, a point of view, advice, an aim, a plan, a will. A multi-author, cooperative collaboration." New collaborative blog on North African and Middle Eastern cultures and cuisines.
July 28, 2005
Food blogs
It's going to take three or four installments to update the list so here goes. First some in my bookmarks and oldest notes.
Banlieu Blog Life in a Paris Suburb
Dessert comes first "An obsession with dessert and other unabashed opinions of a food writer" Manila.
Eater NY restaurant gossip.
Eet Smakelijk Eten which means 'Enjoy your meal' in Dutch.
Cabbages and kings UK. My favorite among this post's list and not just because of the perfect name for a food blog. A funny, wry, slightly bawdy style, from a girl that really gets around, from milky teats in Luxemborg, to Queso in Wales, to the French Laundry in California.
Cooking with Miklb. Tampa Bay
Potential Gold Los Angeles. There is some gold here in Ore's archives, in the recounting of the knowledge learned from studying Italian cooking.
Pumpkin Pie Bungalow Ottawa, Canada.
Roast Chicken Reasoning Canada.
July 21, 2005
Getting Behind
I should apologize to all those who have sent requests to join the food blog list in the past month. A vacation, and a laptop having to go into the shop has caused me to fall behind on my updates.
It shouldn't be much longer.
June 04, 2005
More Food Blogs
Two Down under wine blogs:
Appellation Australia "An exploration of Australian wine"
Pinot Island "The Tasmanian Wine Resource"
And a pile of food blogs:
David Lebovitz Pastry Chef, food writer and European chocolate/bakery tour guide. Paris. This is a particular tasty blog.
The Kitchen Review "Cooking and eating in New York City since 8:30am this morning."
Lex Culinaria I'm not sure how this well-established, delicious looking blog keeps slipping by me. I could have sworn I listed it before.
Gothamist/food Normally I don't include just the food category section of a larger blog, but since Gothamist talks about food so much (and how can you not in NY?) I'll put 'em in.
mmm-yoso!!! "As in, yoso-silly, yoso-hungry, yoso-full, or best of all; mmm-delici-yoso!!!!! An Ex-Pat Kama'aina explores San Diego and points beyond."
Never trust a skinny chef "A once obese foodie takes on the culinary world." Atlanta.
Toast "To the attainable ideal of deciding what we will eat before we eat it."
We Like it Raw "The Raw Food Weblog"
May 26, 2005
Getting behind on the food blogs
I meant to post this list a week ago, but I've been held up by work, and some strange "global CGI" problem from my webhost.
Don't fret if you've contacted me and aren't on this list, I have another one coming that's just as long. By the way, I've written some inclusion/exclusion rules that basically say that I'll link to food blogs, not food sites. I'm getting an alarming amount of form requests to include cheesy link farms.
The Adventures of the Tastebuds!
cheap veggie gourmet " I'm poor. Really poor... I constantly see people complaining about the cost of food, and it baffles me. I've always eaten very well, and food is one item that has never strained my budget."
Cook's Journal "I am a professional cook. I chose this life because food is exciting to me! Equally exciting to me are the techniques that are always there to be learned, even by the most seasoned chef. A chef or cook that "knows everything" is a fool. A great Chef, is always a student, even to his cooks, although he may remain a silent student."
Delish "A food blog from New Zealand"
Feeding Faces "A forum for my musings about the life I lead as a waiter and/or cook in the dining industry."
The green jackfruit Pittsburgh
Home Cooking Amateurs Anonymous
Is It EDible? San Francisco
Mahanandi "Cooking with Consciousness - Recipes from India ~ Andhra Pradesh ~ Rayalaseema ~ My hometown Nandyala"
Nibble & scribble Singapore
The Occasional Epicure Brisbane, Australia
Oswego Tea Heidelberg, Germany
Post Punk Kitchen "Behind the scenes at the world most beloved vegetarian, punk rock cooking show" Brooklyn.
Renaissance Culinaire A pastry student, blogging my way to Pastry Chefdom
Seven Spoons Another Blog with outstanding photography. Southern Ontario, Canada
Sibilous Observations on Food in the Bay Area
The Travelers Lunchbox Edinburgh, Scotland
The World on a Plate "The online home of the Food-and-God Guy, Frank Remshifski, and his newspaper column, The World on a Plate. The column, and this site, regularly serves original recipes, food history, and cooking techniques." Lambertville NJ. Frank noticed I was in Lambertville early this year and laments the loss of a burger cheaper than ten bucks in his cool, but gentrifying town.
But I still envy him because he's in the same town as the River Horse Brewery.
May 21, 2005
Some Food Blogs
I've got a great big list of new blogs for the list, but here are a few with some interesting, focused themes.
The Bruni Digest "This blog is predicated on the suggestion that every Wednesday, in the Times Dining Out section, Frank lays a huge faberge egg of hilarity."
A Hamburger Today "a beefy mix of news digests, original reviews, and musings on burgers. Our favorite condiment here is opinion, and we've got plenty of it." From The People who brought you Slice
Independent America "We're on the lookout for "Mom & Pop" -- producing our own road movie across the United States. More than ever it seems like it's Independent America vs. Corporate Chain store America. We're hunting for those pressure points along with our black lab Miles. We've vowed to make our 52-day trip without setting one tire on an interstate highway – without setting one foot inside a corporate chain restaurant, motel or store."
PikaPikaChick's Food Pricing Blog "I'm going to dissect recipes and hopefully figure out a way to make things more budget-friendly without losing out on taste and appearance."
Kitchen Parade: Veggie Venture "On April 1, Kitchen Parade launched a Veggie Venture. The goal was to cook a vegetable, with new recipes and new vegetables, every single day for an entire month. Why? Because our diets need more vegetables. Because vegetables are too often an after-thought. And because it's easy to get stuck in a veggie rut. But after a month, we were just getting started - and summer vegetables will soon arrive!"
May 15, 2005
3rd Blog Birthday
I really should have a picture of a few candles on a cup cake or something, but I usually forget to brag about my blogs' birthdays until it's too late anyway.
I was reminded when I saw Becks & Posh's Birthday was this month too.
May 01, 2005
Yet even more food weblogs
Just when I thought I had most of the food blogs, I find a whole bunch more. I'm always amazed when I find a food blog that I've missed, that has been around for a year or so.
The Adventures of Pie Queen "Food, recipes, and tasty musings from a writer in Brooklyn."
The City That Eats "On gastronomic and gustatory adventures in Chicago."
Confessions of a Restaurant Whore
cookiesinheaven "delicious ramblings about spilled milk and cookie crumblings"
Delicious Paths "A journey in cookery, devoted to one girl's experiences as she forges her way, recipe by recipe, through cookbooks in an attempt to learn something about food and maybe, just maybe, about herself." Connecticut
Eat Stuff "A girl a guy and a cat eating stuff around Sydney Australia, then writing about it."
Fancy Glass
Tokyo
The Fruit Blog "A discussion (if any one comes along to discuss with, otherwise it's more of a monologue) of fruit and fruit breeding."
Grab Your Fork Life is one long buffet table...
Kitchen Savy "Answering Your Food and Cooking Questions"
My Restaurant Rules is an Australian television program that follows five couples as they set up and run their own restaurants.
Restaurant Widow "dining.drinking.cooking." Ohio
she bakes and she cooks "Welcome to my world where calories and carbs don't count for naught." Singapore
Snackish "Yes, I believe it IS snack-time!" Southern California
Soul Fusion Kitchen Los Angeles
Taste Everything Once "Daily food ramblings of a compulsive baker, taster, nibbler, shopper, and slurper... " Spokane, Washington
April 28, 2005
More food blogs
Even more food blogs to add to the list.
Belly Timber Friday Harbor, Washington
FoodNerd! "Pursuing quality gastronomical endeavors for the general good." Recently moved to Chicago.
how to eat a green mango Manhattan/Brooklyn
Little fancies "and other food adventures"
Long Island Food Blog "Snarky Cogitations on the Food of Long Island"
McSpotlight " McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard."
The Official Ramen Homepage I don't think the ramen people would agree that this is the offical page. Especially when it includes a recipe called "Girl Scout Thin Mint Ramen On A Stick" (Actually, there really aren't any official "ramen people").
One Hot Stove "What do you get when you add one over-enthusiastic cook to a cramped NYC kitchen? One Hot Stove! This is a blog about breaking bread and sharing the good life"
Rookie Cookery formerly Andreayaya.
Sin is In Because sex isn't dirty anymore, but food is.
WhiteTrashBBQ "Real Pit Barbeque from New York City. This is the story of a fire obsessed guy, living in Brooklyn, with a dream of producing award winning, competition busting, real Barbeque. Come live the dream as I compete around the country in the 2005 KCBS Barbecue ciruit."
April 19, 2005
More food blogs
Here's another bunch to add to the list. Don't feel bad if you contacted me and I missed you - they'll be another bunch posted soon.
bacontarian "- a person who supplements an otherwise normal diet with large amounts of pork!"
Bexnlog "it's all about the food"
Boston Restaurant Talk "A journal that includes random musings on the Boston restaurant scene and related issues, including restaurants in other parts of the country."
Crispy Waffle "more than just waffles (which are delicious, by the way)"
The Daily Vegetable "Making veggie eating a daily routine isn't easy - it takes fortitude, discipline, and a new way of thinking. Become what you think about - and read The Daily Vegetable, well, daily!"
Diary of a Cook's wife The life and times of being a Cook's wife.
Epicurean Debauchery Bay Area, California
Feed Me/Drink Me "Food, wine, and commentary. Gratuity not included". Indianapolis.
The Hot Zone "we take some products from a particular manufacturer of hot & spicy foods and taste them, use them in recipes, offer links to other online reviews and recipes, and list the ingredients for anyone who's interested."
JoyfulCooking "A few years ago I decided I was going to make every single recipe in the Joy of Cooking. This blog is my attempt at chronicling every recipe in the book (the good, the bad, and the ugly)."
MealCentric "The food ramblings of a young man in Los Angeles and Orange County"
Salivate" In search of the ultimate gustatory experience in Malaysia"
Small Farms "Photographing so many of the lovely little farms around Santa Cruz, California, kindled my love for farms and the people who commit their lives to them. I've traveled all over California's most fertile farmland, and am visiting farms elsewhere this year, as well: we'll see where I land. This journal is intended to share my love and appreciation for the hard work farmers and their families do to create such beautiful places and beautiful food. If you love good food, it all starts here. Ask the chefs: behind every great chef is at least one great farmer."
Sweetnicks "A blog to capture all thoughts and musings related to food."
The Thorngorve Table "Personal adventures, discoveries and disasters in medieval and modern cuisine" U.K.
Vagrant Appetite "Epicurian globe-trotting eats. International vagrant extraordinaire eats her way back home, a Hong Kong retrospective plus new eats in the UK, Leeds and London and beyond."
March 30, 2005
Still Yet Even More Food Blogs
Bacon Press "...my eating habits and opinions change often. Let's just say that while I'm in perfect mental health, my stomach tends to be bi-polar." San Francisco.
Culinary Fool Cooking Club diary with musings, rants and ravings about all things culinary
Darell Eats a website dedicated to my obsession with cooking and eating.
The Delicious Life "drinking.dining out.dabbling in the kitchen.all the things that make life delicious." Los Angeles.
Food Musings "a San Francisco girl who loves to eat and write...and eat some more."
From the pantry Los Angeles
Jim Barcelona's Philosophy and Food Blog "A Blog about Philosophy and Food"
My Epicurean Debauchery Bay Area, California
Seattle Bon Vivant One of those popular blogs I keep missing because I think I already have it.
Though small, it is tasty Formerly know as "Let's cook with Meg and Ted".
Vic Cherikoff's Blog "Vic Cherikoff, representing Vic Cherikoff Food Services and Dining Downunder, writes an occasional opinion, update and observation on the food industry and in particular, on Australian cuisine." This guy sells some very interesting sounding Australian herbs and spices, billed as "the newest ingredients from the oldest, continuously living culture on the planet." This is the kind of thing that has the potential to take off in high-end culinary circles - rare and exotic sounding things like Australian Glace Riberries, lemon myrtle, and Wattleseed.
Zarzamora "is it possible to learn how to cook simply by being married to a chef and loitering in the kitchen? ... this is the blog of my attempt"
March 26, 2005
Yet more Food Blogs
As I promised, part II of today's Food Blogs to add to the list.
All Cupcakes, All The Time "Everything you ever wanted to know about cupakes (and I'm sure more than you never though to ask!) from a true cupcake fan".
Delicious Days Yet another food blog with excellent photography. Munich (in English).
Fresh Approach Cooking "Recipes and whatnot from a not-so-typical L.A. girl"
Loves Cool "for the love of desert". I'm glad the desert faction of food blogs is growing. This one has a delicious look to it.
Mens Cookery Club "3 Blokes, a blender and a bag of chickpeas every Friday night, taking the piss and learning to cook under the watchful eye of the master MCC Sensi." Bristol, England.
Sharp Cookie Cape May, New Jersey.
Su Good Eats A food blog of Su Good Sweets (a mini bakery).
Sweet Nicks "A blog to capture all thoughts and musings related to food."
Roving Gastronome "Blow-by-blow accounts of culinary adventures, particularly in obscure grocery stores in Astoria and abroad."
What should I cook tonight? "A young man's neverending struggle to decide what to cook each night. Join me as I wrestle with my inner food demons - creativity or frozen food and does rice taste better salted? Join the campaign to replace that cockney tw*t Jamie Oliver as the face of Sainsbury's with someone altogether more appealing - me!" London (obviously).
You Gonna Eat All That? Virginia.
Food blogs
I'm way behind in keeping up with the flood of food blogs. They'll be a part II soon.
Delicious! Delicious!
"The story of one woman in love with food. Because stories about food are inherently more interesting." Written as only a screenwriter can write. Not afriad to use great big photos too. Los Angeles.
Food Chronicles "Food news, reviews and stories from far and wide" Based in Southern California.
Four Seasons "Local food & farms, sustainable agriculture & the environment, nutrition & health."
For The Love Of Travel & Food "I travel to taste & discover the unusual."
The Fresh Loaf "News and information for bread enthuasiasts."
Market Manila "A food weblog that talks about ingredients, food, food stuffs, recipes, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe."
mā'ona "Hawai'ian: Satisfied after eating, full, satisfying; to have eaten, to eat one's fill." has a recent interesting sounding "Chocolate Curry Cupcakes with Lemongrass Infused Coconut Buttercream Frosting" recipe.
Michael Mahle's Blog
"Mostly restaurant and food reviews with a dash of concert experiences and a sprinkling of travel adventures" He has a recent review of Blue Hill at Stone Barns where he got to eat in the same room as Sen. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
Nosheteria "the Bourgie (boo-zhee) revolution starts here." Berkeley, CA
Part-Time Pro Bono Baker from chicago
Plate Of The Day "all about the experiences associated with food."
Salt and Pepper "This is a blog created just so I can chronicle all my cooking experiments."
Tommy J's Kitchen "Cooking tips, techniques, recipes, and ingredients. For beginner and expert alike, come join me in wandering about the kitchen in search of a meal."
The Westernized Kusina This is the online community kitchen of Fil-West couples and their offspring and other Pinoys/Pinays uprooted from their native land.
A Year In Food "Documenting 365 days of dining out (minus the many meals I eat at work because let's face it, the Financial District is a wasteland and it'd be way too depressing to read or write about)" NYC. I like those photos of someone who lost a bet to him, wearing a Whiskey bottle in front of some nice restaurants.
Yoonfook.com "now entirely devoted to reviews of crap Japanese food - the kind that only children and poor people eat. "
March 09, 2005
Local (Chicago) Food blogs
As usual, I have a backlog of new food blogs to add to the list, but I thought I'd throw a few locals ones out here.
Chicago Foodies Chicago "Restaurants, Home Cuisine, & the Food Scene".
Nutrition & the Immune System "Perspective of a Chicago Parent".
Saucy, from Jessa, the bookslut.
Food blog press
I got quoted in a Washington Post article on food blogs trying to estimate the number of food blogs out there. Right now my list is just over 300. I seem to be adding 7-10 every week.
The total number of active english-language food blogs in existence is a pretty tough question - there's no way to know. I guessed, and said there could be as many as double as I have listed (600) and growing by twice as many as I can find a week (maybe 20 a week).
The only way a new food blog gets noticed is if they get listed on another's sidebar, or if they get themselves listed on food porn watch or one of the other lists. Also I find a few from comments they make on my, and other's blogs.
If a food blogger isn't actively involved commenting and contributing to the online food events, they're easily missed. But most bloggers are interested in a little attention or at least like to comment on other's blogs, so that's why my estimate isn't any higher than (around) 600.
Also blogs are a fleeting thing for most people, the enthusiasm doesn't last forever, and neither does the time it takes. Many people give it up and get on with their lives within a few years, so the number of blogs that go dormant or just plain die are a factor. I'd guess 10-15 percent of my present list will stop posting between now and summer.
I just noticed that we're also mentioned in the Tennessean. Most of the reporters links are broken though. Don't these people have editors? The article does give me a new source of food blogs from Globe of Blogs. And no, their count of 689 food blogs does not change my estimate, while there are some good ones listed, most are not active, or are not specifically food blogs.
There's also a food blog article in the San Francisco Chronicle. And again, most of the blogs listed aren't hyperlinked. What's wrong with reporters today? Are they not allowed to hyperlink, or do they not know how? Even the Washington Post's article had incorrect links (it's grocerylists.org, not .com and it's deadmaneating.blogspot.com with no spaces).
March 07, 2005
More food blogs
Here's my latest additions to the list.
Abundant "illustrates the joys of food and disseminates the philosophy that scarcity is a myth and we have the potential to feed everyone in the world."
Earthly Delights Los Angeles
Food Follies "Like Ice Follies, But With Food"
Garlic Dude " Charlie and Chef Alex Larson write about good things going on in the food and wine business. The brothers own and operate Rapazzini Winery and The Garlic Shoppe in Gilroy Ca The Garlic Capital."
Hot Sauce Blog This blog has been set up so that we can update all the chileheads out there with the latest and greatest information in the fiery foods world!
Knife's Edge - Restaurant Rants & Raves. By an actual restraurateur "lost in Northern California".
No More Ramen - Eat Up & Chow Down
1000 Bars "My travelogue of a journey through 1000 bars in 1 year." Some of us have loftier (and worthier) goals then others.
Oranges and Lemons "making really good orange lemonade"
Scott Hutcheson from Indiana.
Truffle Mutt, from Calgary.
March 06, 2005
Yet another food blog
I still have a big list of food blogs to edit and add to the list, and I'll get it posted before some impending food blog press this week, but I needed to get this one out as soon as possible.
"The Corn Dog Day Blog is for attendees (and aficionados) of National Corndog Day. NCD 2005 is on March 19th this year, so time to get ready." I hope they have a new poster this year, the old one's were great.
That's a picture of me holding a Cozy Dog, at the Illinois State fair a few years back.
Making your own corn dogs requires quite a commitment, but if you got what it takes (basically a deep fryer) you can follow the recipe on the Corn Dog Day Blog. Or if you want a Cozy Dog instead of a Corn Dog (the Cozy people seem to be very explicit about that) you can order 5 lbs. of cozy dog flour, sticks and instructions from them for $20.00.
February 25, 2005
Another food blog
Another standout food blog that deserves it's own post - Nordljus. The photography blows away just about every other foodporn blog out there. I'll even give a warning to those of you who might be reading this in a cubicle somewhere and have several hours to go before you're allowed to go to lunch - don't look, it'll be pure torture. It's after 11:00 pm, and I'm very tempted to stay up very late making these cinnamons buns.
I should note that I found this and the blog in my last post on Becks & Posh's Homesick! (Brit-based Food Blogs) sidebar list.
A food blog to add
I'm compiling a larger list of food blogs to add to my list, but it might be a few days before I get around to it, so I'll just throw one out here that I found particularly good.
Fire and Knives is a standout among food blogs, it's good looking and the writing is damn close to brilliant. "There's a lot of pretension around food - a lot of nonsense written. Sometimes what we read doesn't seem to have any relevance to our own experience. At the most fundamental level, food should be about the taste but, for those of us who enjoy cooking, there's another level too. The spirit and alchemy of the kitchen - the Fire and Knives."
The "relevance to our own experience" is probably why I like this one. I can say I love my Buffalo china coffee mug, stolen from a Steak 'n Shake (as well as the full set of "Abilene" style dishes stolen by a previous roomate from a Bennigans), and that I hate frozen peas, but I don't think I can talk about either as eloquently.
"Let me be honest here and admit that I abhor the frozen pea. Pitifully jejune in its unformed state, the frozen pea is a membranous sac containing pea-flavoured juice and p