50 Blogs from 50 States
Serious Eats' idea of creating a New York based section specifically focused on serious eating ("dining, food shopping, and eating out") in New York seemed to me to be a great idea, so naturally I'd like to borrow it and bend it to my own shape, power-freak that I am.
I don't get around the blogosphere a lot so don't really know where to start, but I'd like to create a list (with links to add to my blog) of 50 blogs - one from each State in the US.
The criteria is that the blog be about food (in some way) and that it include links to food in your geographic area, whether it be restaurants or farmers markets or whatever. The blog itself preferably will have its own personal flavor and not be specifically a reviewing site. Why? No good reason really. Just because I like reading about people and food first followed by food in places.
Do you have a blog of this sort? Please tell us about it.
I look forward to some good reading from each of the 50 States. :)
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I'm based in the D.C. Metro area. I started working on restaurant reviews for a freelance assignement that fell through, so those will go up on the blog at some point. In the meantime, you can see what I'm cooking.
KarynMC at 10:35AM on 05/24/08
Blog url - http://www.threepotato.blogspot.com
KarynMC at 10:35AM on 05/24/08
Wisconsin - htttp://www.aservingoflife.com
I'm from Oshkosh, Wisconsin and have been writing A Serving of Life for almost three years.
Eat up!
awimmer at 10:39AM on 05/24/08
@foodvox, thanks for the plug over there!
LunaPierCook at 11:20AM on 05/24/08
mine is here and i blog from georgia (northern atlanta suburb).
french tart at 11:34AM on 05/24/08
I'm based in Stockton, Ca. right in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley fifth biggest ag producer in the world. I talk about a lot of local ingredients and some other random stuff.
evilchefmom at 11:34AM on 05/24/08
hmm. my link didn't take. reposting:
http://frenchtart.blogspot.com/
french tart at 11:38AM on 05/24/08
@ foodvox - This is a great idea! I live in New York City and write about the food I find in little shops around the city and the things I make at home. My blog is called Where I'm Cooking From.
butterface at 12:22PM on 05/24/08
i just started a food blog 2 weeks ago here in central florida
http://mattthebutcher.com/
onepercent99 at 3:49PM on 05/24/08
I'm one of many St. Louis, MIssouri food bloggers, along with the famous Mr. Meatloaf:
www.stlouiseats.typepad.com
lemons at 6:19PM on 05/24/08
You may want to consider nmgastronome.com. It's restaurants only, almost all in New Mexico.
Blue Iris at 6:53PM on 05/24/08
I am based in Jersey City, NJ and blog about shopping, cooking and restaurants in both NJ and NYC.
http://www.izzyeats.blogspot.com
izzy's mama at 9:18PM on 05/24/08
I think LunaPier is too modest to blow his own horn: Luna Pier Cook
Adam Kuban at 10:56PM on 05/24/08
@Adam, only on occasion. ;-)
LunaPierCook at 6:27AM on 05/25/08
It was actually Luna Pier Cook showing up to write the very first (and only) comment on foodvox (naturally it was Barry Fig's bacon drupal he was attracted to - such a guy thing!) that gave me the idea of 50 Blogs from 50 States, because his blog is the perfect combination of personal cooking and stuff about where he lives. There's a distinct "feel" in the blog of his geographic area so that the reading of it takes on the sense of a mini-vacation to somewhere else with someone you know that lives there, though the direct focus is not on the place but is rather him looking at the place through food. :)
Who knows. foodvox may end up being one of those blogs that gets commented once every half year. But we'll always have our memories of Luna Pier Cook . . . and anyway, our contributors are used to having people stare wordlessly in shock at them so we're having a ball. :)
I've really enjoyed reading the blogs everyone added above and will get to linking tout de suite! I really would not have been able to start on this project without this thread, so thanks!
foodvox at 9:12AM on 05/25/08
I just started a Philadelphia based blog
I'll Eat You
http://www.illeatyoudelish.blogspot.com
Lauren
illeatyou at 10:10AM on 05/25/08
@illeatyou.......nice job! I love the black background and white lettering that I CAN READ. Your photos are so pretty against that same black, really brings out the delicious red. I have lived in a couple areas of Philly and now live in the far NW suburbs, but am still interested in what is happening there. I'm anxious to see what you have to say. Good luck with those shortcakes!
PerkyMac at 11:11AM on 05/25/08
@foodvox, I just headed over to have a look ... since you've already listed a blog from DC you'll have to rename the list, "51 Blogs from 50 States & a District" ... but then blogs will show up from Guam and Puerto Rico and you'll end up all kerflummoxed with, "51 Blogs from 50 States, a District and 2 Territories" ... ;-)
LunaPierCook at 2:28PM on 05/25/08
As someone raised in Delaware, I would be very interested to read a Delaware food blog... so I hope one pops up on here!
pbisNOTmyname at 2:54PM on 05/25/08
@perkymac- thanks! keep checking in as I get things off the ground! not enough strawberries for shortcakes though, although plan B is working out fine.
illeatyou at 2:58PM on 05/25/08
Luna Pier Cook you're right as usual. I already asked foodvox if he had something against Puerto Rico and Guam. He means well I think but sometimes the details of reality may escape him. Probably been hanging out with Barry Fig a bit too much. :(
Karen Resta at 3:31PM on 05/25/08
www.newenglandbites.com food reviews of the New England area
haagenfreak at 3:46PM on 05/25/08
Check out the Azaela City Food Blog which is dedicated to the food scene in Alabama's port city of Mobile and the neighboring Redneck Riviera.
azaleacity.wordpress.com
rebdawg at 11:31PM on 05/25/08
Thanks for the new links, all. I've added them and have enjoyed reading each one!
A mini-vacation, and all without even having to face the gas pump. :)
foodvox at 11:20AM on 05/26/08
Mine is from Florida...I have a combo of reviews & recipes
http://natnibbles.blogspot.com
natalie2040 at 1:49PM on 06/05/08
I'll give you a million dollars* if you find a Wyoming-based food blog. Or, a Wyoming blog of any sort.
*(I really won't I just like to say that).
Actually, the only WY blog I've ever seen is a good one - not food-related though:
http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/
lo82070 at 2:20PM on 06/05/08
Bueno gente... because Puerto Rico has been mentioned already, I have to include myself then. My blog is vegetarian, but I do write a lot about Puerto Rican Delicacies done with a vegetarian twist...
Precisely, today's post is about how Puerto Rico was featured yesterday in 3 US TV shows - The Martha Stewart Show, America's Next Top Model and the Top Chef finale...
Madelyn
KarmaFreeCooking
MadelynRodriguez at 2:34PM on 06/05/08
One of my favorite blog is based in both NYC and Ohio: www.thepauperedchef.com (2 writers, 1 in each state)
July at 7:42PM on 06/06/08
lo82070 I think I'll give myself a million dollars if I find one in Wyoming. :)
Amazingly, I just added one from Nebraska.
foodvox at 5:06PM on 06/10/08