Whenever I speak with clients who want to start a food blog, I email them a list to poke through for inspiration. I’ve been over them five or six times, not to mention clicking on other blog links listed on the bloggers’ home pages. Lists like this save me a lot of research time, trying to figure out which blogs work and why, but then I get lost in the blogs for hours. It’s a nice problem to have.
Here are a few more lists to review, all based on awards:
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At the Weblog (Bloggies) awards, winner of Best Food Blog for 2009 is Cake Wrecks. It’s not the usual food blog, but photos of cakes that have gone “horribly, hilariously wrong.” I laughed so hard my husband rushed into my office to see what was so funny. It’s not just the photos. Her captions are wicked. Runners up for the 2009 Bloggie award are:
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Last year’s winner, about an LA woman who married a cattle rancher.
- Bakerella. A cake decorator and baker who loves her baking accessories.
- Chocolate & Zucchini. If you haven’t read it by now, you’re living in a cave. Great content since 2003.
- Smitten Kitchen. A regular of the Bloggie awards, who also won runner up for Best Design and Best Photos.
2. The website Apartment Therapy gives awards for food blogs.
3. I’d love to mention the Well-Fed Network’s 2009 Food Blog award winners, but the website is down. Here’s the list of nominees, courtesy of Serious Eats.
4. Saveur magazine has a Facebook page called “Sites We Love.”
Yes, these blogs are hard to leave once I enter. Very good content.
Another good source of food blogs, and my current go-to list is on Delish:
http://www.delish.com/food/best-of-food-blogs
It’s one of the most up to date lists around.
I’m never really a fan of these lists, they’re too subjective in my opinions. Blogs which I personally think should be on the list aren’t, or are ranked in an order that I find strange. Some of these lists furthermore are like high school elections, popularity contests. I’ve seen a few good blogs with truly unique content get spurned by those simply appeal to a wider base but have less substance. Still, as a source for finding new reading material they have a great use.
Yes, they’re subjective & have the whiff of a popularity contest about them. And yet I do find them informative and I’m grateful someone somewhere is wading through all the food blogs floating around the web in search of some good reads. The comment sections following these posts are highly entertaining. Do you read them? People get really indignant and uppity if their fav food blog is overlooked.
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I like what you wrote! I’ve added your blog to my “reading material.” Keep me updated!