"food blogs" news and stories

Planning a meal online usually goes something like this: Scan for something appealing on Google 'till you realize that's a losing game, then head to your favorite online food magazines and blogs. Then you bookmark, copy URLs -- and maybe even email friends for a consensus. It's a quicker process than searching through cookbooks, but a group of former Yahoo execs saw an easier path: a recipe search engine synced up with Facebook.

And you thought Gwyneth Paltrow spent her evenings sitting around listening to Coldplay outtakes? Turns out, when Paltrow hasn't been working on her upcoming memoir/cookbook, My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family and Togetherness (Grand Central Life & Style; due Spring 2011), she can be found curled up in a comfy chair ingesting food blogs. For Gwyneth's favorite foodie ramblings (among them one of our own faves, pastry chef David Lebovitz's "Living the Sweet Life in Paris" blog) head over to Goop to get the full story.

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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