Posted by Alaina Browne, May 11, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Cheap Healthy Good is a blog about "making delicious eats at a reasonable cost," a topic I think we're all interested in these days, especially the "reasonable costs" part. A good place to dive into the wealth of tips and recipes on Cheap Healthy Good is Kris's recent post, The Hour: How 60 Minutes a Week Can Save Hundreds of Dollars on Food. What it boils down to is:
1. Scanning online circulars
2. Clipping and organizing coupons
3. Creating a menu for the week based on 1 and 2
4. Create a grocery list for the week
If you're anything like me, the most intimidating part of this process is weekly menu planning, but there are some good suggestions for how to do this. And like all great blogs, don't miss the comments—there are more excellent suggestions from the readers.
Posted by Raphael, December 10, 2007 at 3:00 PM
The good folks at Well Fed have placed us among the finalists in the Best Food Blog (Group) category, alongside a host of other fine contenders. Head on over and cast your vote. Polls are open and will accept votes until Friday, December 14, 11:59 p.m. ET.
Posted by Adam Kuban, September 27, 2007 at 3:25 PM
The folks behind New York's restaurant-obsessed blog Eater have planted a flag in San Francisco with Eater SF:
It's taken us a while a to get here, in part because, we'll be frank, San Francisco is a serious place when it comes to restaurants. We don't half-ass the eating here, so we didn't want to half-ass Eater either. (So, for those that have been waiting, we thank you for your patience.)
The site's editor is Paolo Lucchesi, who, it seems until recently, served as editor of Menupages SF. Eater SF follows the debut earlier this year of Eater LA.
Good luck, break a leg, and bon appétit!
Posted by Alaina Browne, September 25, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Photograph by Jennie of Straight From the Farm
Straight From the Farm is a blog about cooking straight from the farm, in this case the Weaver's Way Co-op Farm outside of Philadelphia, and a new addition to my regular food blog reads. I found this photo accompanying a post on how to dry corn. A couple other recent posts I've enjoyed: how to dry tomatoes and carrot "fries".
Posted by Alaina Browne, September 18, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten has started a blog to promote his new cookbook, Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges
, featuring recipes from restaurants Spice Market, Vong, and 66. He's only two blog posts in, and I suspect he won't keep it up for long, but so far, so good. How else would I have learned about cooking with a CVap?
Posted by Adam Kuban, May 25, 2007 at 2:25 PM
How did I miss this site after all these years?!?
The Bacon Show which has been around since May 2005, promises "one bacon recipe per day, every day, forever." [via Matty]
Posted by Adam Kuban, May 24, 2007 at 3:00 PM
The UK's Observer launches Word of Mouth, a daily food blog that will supplement food coverage in the Observer Food Monthly. Among the bloggers: Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner, Blur bassist Alex James, and a coterie of Observer staff. [via Graham "Noodlepie" Holliday ]
Posted by Ed Levine, May 11, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Regina Schrambling's blog Gastropoda is a viciously entertaining read. Here's the least vitriolic (but still pointed) item from today's line-up:
At least once a day a news item makes me think of that old saying, "Figures lie and liars figure." The latest was the "study" correlating the incidence of obesity in different cities with the recipes run in local newspapers. I admit I have a dachshund in this fight, but really, can this actually be true at a time when everything you read says newspapers are going the way of the Walkman? Somehow I suspect fast junk, microwavable garbage and the obsolescence of walking have had more of an iPod impact than the most calorific concoction ever printed under my byline. Besides, everybody knows reading is good exercise. So, for that matter, is cooking.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 20, 2007 at 12:08 PM
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a scene in one of his novels in which a man pushes his plate away and declares, “This food was prepared without love.” We have all most likely had a similar experience. In a nutshell, that seems to be what motivates local food bloggers, who write for love and fun, not profit." Greg Hershey of the Richmond VA weekly magazine Brick put together a round-up of area food bloggers. Some of them do restaurant reviews, others post photos of recent recipes they've tried out, all of them are making me really hungry right now.
[via Veronica's Test Kitchen]
Posted by The Serious Eats Team, March 16, 2007 at 7:22 AM
Today in Meet & Eat, our subject is Sam Breach. If you're an avid, or even casual, reader of foodblogs, you've probably run across her site, Becks & Posh. Her involvement in the thriving foodblog community in San Francisco and at large and her appetite-whetting words and photos have endeared her to many, many readers. In line with her community-building nature, she's the headmistress of Food Blog S'cool, an excellent resource for anyone starting a foodblog or looking to optimize an existing one. OK, without further ado, let's meet Sam.
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Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 8, 2007 at 3:01 PM
"Welcome to the World's First Great Big Vegetable Challenge! Take one seven year old boy named Freddie and his mother as they face the challenge of turning him from a Vegetable-Phobic into a boy who will eat and even enjoy some of life's leafier pleasures. Join us as we work through the A to Z of vegetables!"
Fred's mom posts photos and the recipes they've tried (some suggested by readers) and Fred himself rates dishes—recently he's given potage crecy a nine and courgette quesadillas a full ten, so he can't really be that much of a vegetable hater, he certainly seems to like them more than I do! The GBVC is first and foremost a fantastic idea but it's also a very charming read, and I look forward to eating vegetables vicariously through their continuing adventures.
[via The Grinder]
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 27, 2007 at 10:12 AM
In Salon today, Jonathan Beecher Field wonders if the cookbook has passed its expiration date:
"With the proliferation of clearinghouse Web sites like Epicurious.com, not to mention the enormous number of food blogs that spring up daily, any recipe you can think of is no farther away than the nearest computer. If, as of Sunday, Feb. 25, Epicurious.com serves up nine recipes for "Yorkshire pudding," and Allrecipes.com has 43 for "black bean soup," and Googling "vichyssoise" generates 265,000 results, who needs an all-purpose cookbook like "Joy [of Cooking]" with only one or two recipes for each of these dishes?"
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 15, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Lara Ferroni's Cook & Eat is one of the most stylish and well-photographed food blogs I've ever seen—and no wonder, as she works as a food stylist and photographer. If you enjoy her work, you can buy cards of each of the lovely photos that grace all of her posts.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 13, 2007 at 6:06 PM
Santos of the Scent of Green Bananas is putting together a list of Asian women who've got food blogs—the number is at 328 and counting!
Our Alaina Browne made the graph you see above to better visually represent which countries the bloggers are in—you can see a larger version to make better sense of it. So far the US has almost a third of all bloggers listed; the other countries that round out the top five are Singapore, Japan, Australia and the Philippines.
Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 24, 2007 at 12:00 PM
First sentence: Blogging is the latest trend in food writing. Okay, so it may not be exactly cutting-edge news, but here's the Boston Globe's take on food blogging. Author Jessica Thompson has a blog herself, as does the Globe (free registration required). THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!
Posted by Alaina Browne, January 19, 2007 at 10:58 AM
Homesick Texan's Iron pan, perfect cornbread has got my mouth waterin', tummy rumblin', and feet itchin' to get in the kitchen. She's got great tips for taking care of your cast iron pan and getting the right "crispy, crunchy crust." That's what I call good blog.
Posted by Adam Roberts, January 19, 2007 at 6:18 AM
My parents and I walk into Le Cirque in New York City for the second time in two months, and the difference between our first visit and second is startling. The first time, we were ignored by Sirio Maccioni, Le Cirque’s famous owner, and ushered to a loser table in the back; this time the maitre’d seats us immediately at a table in the front—the best spot in the house. Bus boys and waiters swoop down on us and ask us what we want to drink, if we want sparkling or flat water, if we’d like to see the wine list. Mauro Maccioni, Sirio’s son, makes sure to check in on us every so often. When the meal is over and my father asks for the check, a man who looks like he might be Sirio’s brother bends down and whispers in my father’s ear. When he walks away, my dad says, grinning, “Tonight, we’re guests of the Maccioni family.”
What transpired between our first and second visits? The answer lies beneath your fingertips.
The power of blogging, nowadays, is irrefutable. Blogging has ousted political leaders, written dialog for Samuel L. Jackson, and forced Doogie Howser out of the closet. In the realm of food, blogging is just beginning to gain power. Restaurateurs and chefs are starting to take notice of the strange quiet types scribbling notes and taking pictures of their food.
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