Food Blogs
Elise flanked by her home-cooking soul sisters Nicole Weston of Bakingsheet and Slashfood and Kalyn Denny of Kalyn's Kitchen The BlogHer 2006 conference was this last weekend in San Jose, and well attended by some pretty fabulous food bloggers. The...
"Green! I need to see more green!" was the message I got recently from a dear friend referring of course to the lack of frequency of postings of vegetable recipes on this site. Admittedly, I don't post that often...
"I'm INSANE," Derrick declared, laughing in response to my question to him about why it was he had made duck confit ten times during the previous two months. Derrick Schneider's food blog An Obsession with Food is aptly named. Call...
Cookies, cakes, breads, bars and pies, Nicole Weston's Baking Sheet blog has them all (recipes too). I don't know how she does it, where Nic finds the time to cook all these wonderful sugar-shock inducing treats, and write as prolifically...
Do you love chocolate? If so, you have a friend in David Lebovitz. Former pastry chef at Alice Waters' Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, and now currently residing in Paris, David writes books and teaches classes all about chocolate and...
Many a professional chef have started a food blog, but few have done so as exquisitely as Shuna Fish Lydon with Eggbeater. Shuna's prose abounds with stories, poetry, and observations, and once in a while, truly special recipes. Don't visit...
Many people are sensitive to gluten, the mixture of proteins and starches found in wheat, rye, and barley, that allows for the elasticity in bread dough. For some the sensitivity is light, for others, particularly those with coeliac disease...
Take one food-loving Texan, put her to work in New York City for 11 years and what do you get? One Homesick Texan, pining for the tamales and salsa of her home state. Lisa Fain, the expat behind Homesick Texan...
Looking for a good resource for low carb cooking? My friend Kalyn Denny has amassed quite a collection of recipes appropriate for those on the South Beach Diet. Kalyn's approach to food and cooking is similar to what you find...
Lobstersquad. You know with a name like that the website behind it has to be fun. Lobstersquad is the lively creation of Ximena Maier, a graphic illustrator in Madrid, Spain. Each post is playfully and skillfully illustrated. Delicious recipes pepper...
Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere and all across America people are firing up their grills. For those of you meat-loving, mesquite-obsessed readers out there, we direct your attention to the center of all things meat in the food...
This summer's release from Pixar, Ratatouille, tells the story of a rat who dreams of working as a chef in one of the top restaurants in Paris. If you've ever wondered what it is really like to attend the famed...
I never knew that food could looks so good. If you would like a feast for your eyes, sample the photographs at Keiko's Nordljus blog. Keiko is an inspiration for those of us food bloggers who work so hard trying...
What happens when one of New York's most famous foodies invites a few of his pals to join a new online venture celebrating all that is delicious? Some pretty Serious Eats, that's what. The brain child of New York Eats...
I'm smitten with Smitten Kitchen, a funny, informative, beautifully photographed food blog by Deb in New York City. Just perusing a week's worth of posts will leave you wishing that Deb was one of your friends, and that you got...
Some blogs you just want to curl up with and read, like a good book or a juicy magazine. Tea Austin's Tea & Cookies blog is one of those blogs, not to be skimmed, but to be read thoughtfully, so...
If you are fairly new to the world of food blogs, you may not have yet discovered the extraordinary writing and recipes over at Barbara Fisher's Tigers & Strawberries. Self-proclaimed "West Virginia hillbilly" Barbara, grew up in my grandmothers’ kitchens...
Many skills go into creating a food blog - cooking, writing, computer savvy, and the ability to take photographs of food that make you want to reach into your computer and eat what's in the photo on the screen. For...
