Rogue River Blue, the beautiful grape-leaf wrapped blue cheese from Oregon's Rogue River Creamery, took top honors at this year's American Cheese Society competition, held last week in Austin, Texas. Rogue is actually one of the older creameries in the country, in operation since 1935. It also took home awards for its flavored cheddars, Chocolate Stout, and Lavender, as well as its Smokey Blue....
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Each year, the web's best blogs are highlighted at the Weblog Awards at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference. Winners were announced yesterday. The full list is available on the Bloggies website, but here are the food-related winners. Lots of multiple winners this year. Best Food Weblog: Cake Wrecks [Read the rest, after the jump.]...
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She tipped off readers of the New York Times magazine five years ago that Wine Spectator "granted [its Award of Excellence], the lowest of three levels of recognition by the magazine, without actually inspecting the restaurants involved."...
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PC Magazine did some surfing, found us on the internet, and named us one of the top undiscovered websites of 2008. Who knew we were undiscovered!? Certainly not our regular readers. We're proud to share the title with others out there like WooMe.com, a speed dating website where total strangers join video chats, and if sparks fly, they can pay for personal contact info of those wooed....
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Our friends at Eater San Francisco live-blogged the Golden Clog Awards. We are sure Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman were sufficiently inebriated (even in the daytime) to make the whole affair more than a little amusing. Some of the high-lowlights: The Fergus Award for "greatest achievement in pork and guts" went to David Chang of Momfuku fame. The Rocco for "worst career move" went to Tyler Florence for "Applebee's, Applebee's, Applebee's." Ina Garten won The Alton, for "being on the Food Network and yet, somehow, managing to not suck."...
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The nominees for the inaugural Golden Clog Awards were announced on Eater today. The Golden Clogs were created by Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman to honor, dishonor, or skewer various people in the food biz.
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The funny folks at the Endless Simmer have their own Eater of the Year Award election going on. We love any award category broad enough to include Joey Chestnut, Al Gore, and Padma Lakshmi (among others) as nominees....
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Time Out Chicago announces the winners of its First Annual Eat Out Awards. Editor Heather Shouse says, "the challenge wasn’t finding amazing food and drinks in Chicago—it was narrowing down the best from a break-out year. Local chefs achieved national acclaim, pizza parlors aimed for authenticity, and mixologists brought the farm to the bar, spiking cocktails with herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Our 25 Critics’ Picks Awards honor everything from the year’s best play on surf-and-turf to the city’s fiercest culinary crusader." The magazine's online poll for the Readers Choice Awards got almost 4,000 votes, proving that Chicagoans really are serious eaters!...
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