LA Times on food blogging

by Nicole Weston, Posted Jan 5th 2006 @ 8:18AM

In this week's food section, the LA Times managed to do put together a very respectable piece on some very specific food blogs, such as candyblog and DeepEndDining, both of which happen to be Los Angeles based. I'm a fan of many of the sites that were mentioned.

Unfortunately for other bloggers, they managed to insult the interest, effort content and sincerity of most, if not all other food bloggers. The first few lines say it all:
"It was fun to pore over the gastronomic musings at the Accidental Hedonist or I Was Just Really Very Hungry.... But quicker than you could say blogosphere, the world of blogs-by-dedicated-foodies got crowded, repetitive, overly precious and just plain dull."

Frankly, there are some blogs that involve food that are less than mind-blowingly amazing. Some are simply good or useful or have pretty pictures. This does not make them a waste of the blog space, at least not my opinion or the opinions of many other bloggers. Without letting my disagreement with the author's sentiments completely get the better of me, I would simply like to point out two things:

Food blogs, contrary to the author's perception, are not "mainstream" media. They're getting more attention, but they're not there yet.
It was not necessary to put down the efforts of decent and competent bloggers just to praise other ones.

For a look at the not-specific-enough-for-the-LA-Times food blogs in the city of angels, check out Rachael's lovely write-up at Fresh Approach Cooking.

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Tags: accidental hedonist, blog, blogs, candyblog, deep end dining, food blog, la times, los angeles, los angeles blogs, los angeles times, netagive comments, newspaper, niche, reporting, west coast

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1-05-2006 @1:47PM sarah said... yes, it was nice to see that the l.a. times was recognizing food blogs, but i didn't like this at all: "overly precious and just plain dull"

overly precious?!?!? i want to know who is overly precious?!?! i haven't seen a single overly precious food blog yet. when i see hello kitty writing her own food blog in pink font on a pink background posting pictures of everything she's made from her pink kitchenaid stand mixer....well i still won't think that's overly precious.
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