5 Ways Bloggers Changed Restaurant Reviewing

September 20, 2011

Now that the New York Times’ latest restaurant critic, Sam Sifton, has moved on, the hand wringing begins anew about whether career food critics are doomed because of Yelp and food bloggers. Let’s ask a different question. How have food bloggers changed restaurant reviewing? Here’s what I see as the biggest shifts: 1. Food bloggers don’t [...]

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Selling Recipes Online for $2.49 Each

September 13, 2011

Eight years ago, Marcy Goldman stopped giving recipes away for free on her website, Better Baking. “Everyone was vacuuming up my recipes and putting them on sites like Allrecipes.com, sometimes changing the headnotes, sometimes not,” she told me in an interview. “It was irksome.“ “Cookbook editors were asking if the recipes for forthcoming books would [...]

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Getting Paid for Recipes, One Year Later

September 6, 2011

What a difference a year makes. Last year at The International Food Blogger Conference (IFBC), Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy got a ton of push-back  on our recipe-writing panel when she suggested food bloggers should get paid for recipes. Even I wrote a conflicted piece on giving recipes away for free, which continues to [...]

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Chef John Strikes Gold with Allrecipes Acquisition

August 30, 2011

Chef John Mitzewich of Food Wishes figured out where the web was going, way ahead of the rest of us. It’s not print, sadly. It’s not even photos. The web is going to video. Four years ago, Mitzewich, a former cooking teacher and chef based in San Francisco, started his food blog, focusing on video. [...]

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Like Throwing Darts in the Dark? That’s Freelancing

August 23, 2011

When I was a magazine editor, I wondered why freelance writers couldn’t figure out what I wanted. I rejected 95 percent of pitches. Now that I’m on the other side, I see how difficult it is when you’re an independent writer, on the outside looking in. At the recent Book Passage conference on Travel, Photography and [...]

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Do We Need Social Media While on Vacation?

August 18, 2011

I need your advice. On a recent vacation, my host and I tweeted to each other, while in the same house. Is this a new low, or is this just what it’s like to be on social media these days? Let me back up and explain. My husband and I stayed with cookbook author Greg [...]

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