"French Laundry Cookbook" news and stories

Choosing the best of anything is a subjective game, but newspaper and magazine editors love to make lists and then let their readers duke it out. The Guardian, a British daily newspaper, recently gathered a mix of Americans and Brits -- including Top Chef Master Chef judge Jay Rayner, "Heat" author Bill Buford, and chef Fergus Henderson -- to judge the 50 best cookbooks of all time.

Coming in at number one is Richard Olney's "The French Menu Cookbook." It's a pretty safe choice, considering Olney's revered status in the food world, but some of their other selections have people scratching their heads. Julia Child isn't in the top 10 (she pops up at 21). Much-loved food writer MFK Fisher is almost at the bottom of the list at 47. And Thomas Keller doesn't appear at all.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, of course, but to overlook Keller's "French Laundry Cookbook" completely seems odd – it's a huge seller in the states, and has been praised by critics and home cooks alike. Is it a deliberate snub?

We've heard of food blogs being turned into books, movies and Food Network web shows. But we haven't seen much in the way of food bloggers making the leap to our living room screen. Well, apparently, that may be changing soon.

Remember that blog that I raved about last summer? You know, the one where you take one Mike Bloomburg-crushing, Washington, D.C. area, adventurous foodie and mix her with a copy of the French Laundry Cookbook. Well, it seems that I wasn't the only one smitten with blogger Carol Blymire's food attitude.

According to Ted from E's! The Awful Truth, Carol the blogger behind the very fun French Laundry at Home, may soon be coming out from behind her computer and straight onto her own show on the Food Network. I do believe she is just the woman to shake things up over there.

Good luck Carol!

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