"FoodBlogs" news and stories

For many of us food bloggers out here, there's nothing more exciting than when a member of the old guard food media takes a moment to recognize the food and stories that we're putting out into the world. Bon Appétit, that storied publication, recently put aside some of their website space to feature 22 of their favorite food blogs (hooray for blogger recognition!).

It's a slide show that will make you hungry and start plotting out an after-work shopping list. Some of the featured blogs are the older, more established sites like Simply Recipes and Delicious Days while a few newcomers like Food Junta and Sassy Radish also made the list. Every single offering looks delicious and I'm delighted to see so many deserving bloggers get a bit of recognition. Congratulations to you all!

With so much good food content popping up on the interwebs every other minute, it's sometimes hard to know which sites to turn to for the best in recipes, polls, product reviews and other food-related goodness. We know you love Slashfood, but what's a foodie to do on those occasions when you've devoured everything Slashfood's got and there's still half an hour of the work day still to kill?

How about checking out our buddies over at YumSugar? They consistently offer high quality content covering all things tasty. We like them so much that starting tomorrow, we'll be offering up a weekly round-up of some of our favorite YumSugar posts from that week. They think we're pretty nifty too, and so will be doing a round-up of our stuff on Thursdays as well. Hooray for food blog buddies!

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If you had to come up with your dream job, what would it be? Philanthropist? Rock Star diva? Four-Star chef?

Readers of this blog might be hard pressed to come up with one to beat this job description: Keeper of all things culinary for the New York Public Library, main branch. It's a gig that combines academia, literature, history, urban legend, folklore, whimsy AND food.

And the lucky woman who actually holds this job writes a blog, too. Rebecca Federman, whose official title is Social Sciences Bibliographer, is the wit behind the always fascinating Cooked Books. In her travels as "keeper of all things culinary" for the library, she helps maintain the library's culinary studies, culinary history and cookbook collections, as well as the library's 30,000 restaurant menus (and you thought those all ended up in your lobby). The result is a blog you don't dare approach unless you have at least several hours of reading time at the ready.

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Everyday, as I work through my collection of food blog feeds, I keep a running list of the posts that I think are interesting or could become a prompt for a blog entry. I turn many of them into posts here, but I always have a few leftover at the end of the day. Towards the end of the week, I've got a whole bunch of unused links hanging around. Today I'm giving those orphaned links another chance at blog-life.

Serious Eats writes about a recent article in Dwell magazine about iconic kitchen items, ranging from the classic Peugeot Pepper Mill to the angular Bialetti stove top espresso maker (I love mine).

Still on the topic of cooking gear, Baking Bites points readers in the direction of an article over at PC Magazine that lists the 10 Weirdest Cooking Gadgets. I think that the Zero Gravity Spice Rack looks pretty darn nifty.

Yumsugar offers advice on how long things should be kept in the fridge and reminds us to label items with the date on which they were opened so to be better able to judge when things should be thrown out. I have to admit that I am often lax in the fridge purging department.

I admit that I am a novice when it comes to fried foods (making them that is, not eating them) but Elise's post on Simply Recipes for Buttermilk Fried Chicken has me seriously contemplating giving it a shot.

Last weekend my sister sent me a link to the website for Jungle Jim's, an enormous international market in Fairfield, OH. They carry more than 100 varieties of honey, have a section of the store named for Robin Hood and actually offer tours of the store for those who can't navigate the place on their own. It makes me want to plan a vacation around visiting that store (Ohio isn't that far from Philadelphia).

I am both curious and scandalized by the idea that one would use brie as the cheese in a quesadilla. Doesn't that seem somehow wrong? And yet, somehow it also seems so very right.

photo by Marisa McClellan

There's an article in The Sacramento Bee that's been syndicated that says that food blogs are becoming popular! Of course, that's something we've known for a long time now, right?

The piece states that there are 48,000 bloggers right now, though doesn't really specify if that means there are 48,000 blogs or 48,000 people blogging (many blogs have several authors). And what is the big revelation in the piece? Readers read food blogs to get recipes, reviews, and ideas! Wow!

I often wonder why blogs are still seen as some alien concept. Some nice coverage for some good blogs though, including Chocolate and Zucchini and Cakegrrl (in the pic).

Our sister site Engadget gets some nice press in the piece, but Slashfood isn't even mentioned. I'm sure that's just a typo.