Food Blogs

Some of the best and most interesting food writing appears on personal blogs, especially if you are looking for food and recipes outside of the mainstream. Be warned though, personal blogs are hard to keep up and most successful ones become a joint effort.

Food Blog Awards & Directories

• Bloggers' Choice best food blog awards
  Sign up to vote for your choice.
• Bloggies
  Gives an annual best food blog award.
• Foodbuzz
  Check out this community of food lovers for links to their blogs. Each day they choose 9 top postings from among hundreds of food blogs. Photography counts.
• James Beard Foundation Awards
  Awards an annual food blog prize.
• IACP New Media Broadcast Awards
  The awards for the best Culinary Blog went to:
  • 5 Second Rule (winner)
  • Bona Fide Farm Food
  • Pizza Quest
• Saveur Magazine 2nd Best Food Blog Awards 2011
  Their staff reviewed 40,000 individual plugs for websites, narrowing them down to six finalists in seventeen categories. The readers then picked the winner in each category.
  • 2010 Winners
• Voilà! The Top 40 French Cooking Blogs
  It is always nice to peruse cooking blogs. This list was posted on March 14, 2011 by the Culinary Arts College blog and guide.

Selected Food Blogs

• 101 Cookbooks
  Heidi Swanson is a San Francisco based photographer, cookbook author, designer who looked at her collection of cookbooks one day in 2003 and decided it was time to stop collecting and start cooking. Her blog has garnered numerous awards and mentions in the food press.
• Appon's Thai Food
  This food blog offers Thai recipes with commentary - which is always more interesting than a straight recipe book.
• BA Foodist
  This Bon Appetit blog by Andrew Knowlton was a 2009 finalist for the James Beard Foundation award for a blog focusing on food, beverage, restaurants, or nutrition.
• Bay Area Bites
  A food blog produced by KQED San Francisco commenting on the food scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out the trends.
• Chocolate & Zucchini
  The blog of Clotilde Dusolier, a 27 year-old Parisian, who now has published a cookbook of the same name.
• Cookbooker
  Cookbooker lets you catalogue, rate and review recipes from your favorite cookbooks, magazines and websites, then find out what other cooks think about them.
• Cooking Diva
  This Panamanian chef took the 2007 Bloggies award for Best Latin Blog.
• David Lebovitz
  A former Chez Panisse pastry chef who now lives in Paris.
• Eat With Pleasure
  Jenny Holm grew up in Minnesota and studied in Russia and so has a bent towards Scandinavian and Eastern European foods.
• Eating Asia
  A Travel/Food blog from Robyn Eckhardt, Freelance Food and Travel Writer and David Hagerman, Editorial and Commercial Photographer.
• The Food Section
  A great food blog from New York City. Of course it will make you cry to see all the food events they have access to there! But they have great links to explore (to blogs and more).
• Foodista.com
  Foodista, a community of bloggers, holds two International Food Blogger Conferences.
• Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast
  This food blog by Hank Shaw was a 2009 finalist for the James Beard Foundation award for a blog focusing on food, beverage, restaurants, or nutrition. It specializes in wild food.
• In My Kitchen Garden
  In 1994, at 26, FarmGirl Susan sold her little bakery cafe, packed up 200 boxes of books & antiques, waved goodbye to her native California and moved to a farm in the middle of nowhere (Missouri). This is her Kitchen Garden blog.
• James Beard Foundation Blog: Delights & Prejudices
  Covers things like Food Trends to Watch for in 2012.
• Leite's Culinaria
  David Leite (pronounced leet) is the author of The New Portuguese Table, which won the 2010 IACP First Book/Julia Child Award. Other well-known contributors also post so there is a variety.
• Michael Ruhlman
  Cleveland native and author/co-author of many books about food and chefs. He has a blogroll of Chefs' blogs.
• The Old Foodie
  "From Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The Old Foodie gives you 400 words each weekday on a topic related to the day, plus a historic recipe, and sometimes a menu. And how much fun is that!"
• Parla Food
  Katie Parla, a travel writer, food historian, and sommelier based in and around Italy, chases down the best food in Italy and elsewhere in this blog.
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks
  This award-winning blog is written by a woman who lives in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch and whose days are spent "wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts."
• Serious Eats
  This community food blog will keep you posted on what's happening in the food world, especially in New York City. Related food blogs include "slice" for pizza and "A hamburger today".
• Simply Recipes
  Elise Bauer of Carmichael, California started this family recipe blog in 2003. Simply Recipes was voted Best Food Blog Overall in the 2006 Food Blog Awards. Her photos are particularly good.
• La Tartine Gourmande
  This blog by a French woman living in Boston has stunning food photographs.

Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: On the Menu: Growing food blogs change the dish on local scene
  This August 14, 2009 article by China Millman lists some of the food blogs in the Pittsburgh area, many of which have run out of steam by 2012.
• Coduroy Orange
  A Pittsburgh food blog by Jesse Sharrard, a classically trained chef with an English degree.

Selected Books

Yes, there are books on food blogs... Quite a few books originated from food blogs.

Foodista: Best of Food Blogs Cookbook
TX714.F66355 2010x
As the first grassroots cookbook to emerge from social media, The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook features competition-tested recipes from the website Foodista.com. "More than any other type of food writing, food blogging gives us intimate snapshots of a diversity of lives and kitchens."

Lebovitz, David
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
TX637.L42 2009
David Lebovitz based this IACP nominated book on his Paris blog.

McCann, Jennifer
Vegan Lunch Box: 130 Amazing, Animal-Free Lunches Kids and Grown-Ups Will Love!
TX837.M463 2008
McCann started from the Vegan Lunch Box blog. Blogs are great for alternative lifestyles! She has also written Vegan Lunch Box Around the World.

Powell, Julie
Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage, her job, and her sanity to master the art of living
TX649.P66 A3 2005
This is the book based on the blog by Julie Powell that became the Julie and Julia movie.