favorite food blogs

I enjoy reading food blogs, especially those that review dining experiences from restaurants all across the country and around the world. For some reason I don't always get the same enjoyment reading about a critic's review of a restaurant though. I don't know why...anywho, I was just wondering if anyone had any favorite blogs, not necessarily only about dining reviews, that they might want to share? Thanks!

There's an old topic here with a lot of links. An update would be useful so feel free to add your favorites and tell us which ones no longer work.

I follow different blogs for different reasons- restaurant reviews, humor, photography, writing subject/style, etc. Here are some I have on my feeder. (Sorry I don't know how to add links)

Amateur Gourmet- http://www.amateurgourmet.com/
Augieland- http://augieland.blogs.com/
Blognut- http://theblognut.net/
Chuckeats- http://chuckeats.com/
French Laundry at Home- http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/
Gastroville- http://www.gastroville.com/
Girl Who Ate Everything- http://www.roboppy.net/food/
Greedy Goose- http://greedygoose.blogspot.com/
Hungry in Hogtown- http://www.hungryinhogtown.com/
Kuidaore- http://brandoesq.blogspot.com/
Orangette- http://orangette.blogspot.com/
Sweet Napa- http://www.sweetnapa.com/
Smitten Kitchen- http://smittenkitchen.com/
The Traveler's Lunchbox- http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/journal/
The Scent of Green Bananas- http://scentofgreenbananas.blogspot.com/
Veal Cheeks- http://vealcheeks.blogspot.com/
Veronica's Test Kitchen- http://kitchenmusings.typepad.com/my_weblog/[/url]

An LTHr's that I rather like: http://www.skilletdoux.com And of course, technically it's not a blog, but Gary's bbq website is legendary:
http://www.wiviott.com

I don't think either of those are on the other thread...

I've got a few favorites. They're all listed here.

Seriously, my list of food blogs needs some serious editing. I also get a dozen or more requests a week to be added. Unfortunately, blogging takes time, and most blogs have a short life span.


Here's my list of currently updated Chicago Food Blogs


Big Sweet Tooth

Bite Spot

The Chicago Burger Project

Chicago Localvores

Chicago Foodies Chicago Restaurants, Home Cuisine, and the Food Scene.

Dejamo's Distracted

Drive Thru Gapers Block's food blog

Eat Chicago

Fancy Toast

The Food Chain The Reader's Food Blog

Food Nerd

Hungry Mag

JuJube

Joelen's Culinary Adventures

Kiplog cooks and eats

Olive and Mason Eat Chicago

Part time Pro Bono Baker

Have a Bite

Blue Kitchen

Skilletdoux

The Stew Chicago Tribune's food blog

Tastebud Chicago

Vital Information


There's also
Case By Case Sam's Wine blog

Outside of Chicago, but still of interest to this forum - Champaign Taste
Cooking and eating in East-Central Illinois

And two excellent Podcasts, Eat Feed and Chicago Bites

If you want to search for food blogs you are not aware of I would recommend http://www.tastespotting.com People add food images and they mostly link to food blogs. (I am doing a terrible job of describing it, but I can't think of another way) [/url]

Kiplog ~ thank you for including mine!

Hey- FYI since LTH has so many great writers, this is a notice that there are 5 slots open for new contributors at chicagofoodies.com if you're interested email me josh@chicagofoodiesNOSPAM.com

I first saw this blog after reading a NYT article about gelatin-filtered stocks...

http://www.ideasinfood.typepad.com/

From two NYC chefs, Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot comes an incredibly deep resource and in-depth view into their creative processes.

The blog has recipes, lavish pictures and enough great ideas to keep you busy for months. The pdf'd notebooks are an incredible resource and should, in a just world, have been picked up by some publishing house long ago....

It's also where I learned that an Alinea cookbook is available for pre-order [delivery Fall 2008] from:

http://www.alinea-book.com

Pre-pay for your book and you get access to a website with demonstration videos, extra recipes, supplementary photos and a whole lot more.

Another tremendously useful site is one that I think has been mentioned here on LTH before, Harold McGee's:

http://news.curiouscook.com/

Bringing things full circle, one McGee's latest posts has David Kinch's recipe for "Roasted Dates with Spiced Pumpkin Consomme".

Enjoy!

Marc

Check out Appetite for China for some great posts about food in China, with recipes and lots of mouth-watering photos. I love their tagline: "1.3 billion people must be eating something right." Makes me want to organize a China-thon!

Whoa. I should not have clicked on this thread...now I'll never get any work done at work.

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Whoa. I should not have clicked on this thread...now I'll never get any work done at work.

I feel the same way. I have seen most of these, but don't read anything regularly (except LTH) or I wouldn't get anything done.

I do check out another one occasionally that's not on the list (mostly for the photographs - she's a food stylist).

http://www.runningwithtweezers.com

I have fallen in love with the hungryboy's food blog. This guy is on point, amazing stuff.

http://eatbma.blogspot.com/

Well, I'm a new LTH member, but, in looking for food blogs mentioned in the forum, I found you all. Might I give a quick plug to my own little blog? FoodLovesWriting.com is a literary food blog of adapted recipes, restaurant reviews & original food stories. It's only a few months old, but I update usually three times a week. I'd love to get some feedback!

Here are some others I love:

orangette.blogspot.com
smittenkitchen.com
angryasiancreations.blogspot.com
myfirstkitchen.net
happyjackeats.blogspot.com

http://www.elise.com/recipes/
http://chibbqking.blogspot.com/
http://beefwithhot.blogspot.com/
http://slice.seriouseats.com/

I'm a regular at Michael Laiskonis' blog. He's the pastry chef at Le Bernardin. When I see the passion and dedication he has to his craft, I'm glad I left the industry. I love food, but I don't have what this guy has. He's an awfully thoughtful writer too. In fact, one of my favorite passages of his is all about writing on his blog:

Just like chocolate work, or dicing a brunoise, or even expediting the pass, you're only good at writing if you practice it on a regular basis. I think the writing here has gotten better with each post; for sure, the process feels less daunting and takes far less time than it used to. Carrying around a few small notebooks has helped- I find myself writing all the time, in all kinds of situations. If I have a spare moment, I'm probably scribbling something or other (This very paragraph is being written in between orders during a busy December dinner service). Difficult as it is at times, it has become part of my daily routine; whether or not what comes out is worthy of a Pulitzer, at least it keeps my thoughts organized. I've probably written more in the last year alone than in all my years since high school. I like it.

Curious: what is a list of your favorite food websites and/or blogs?

I enjoy this one.

http://mykugelhopf.ch/

My absolute favorite, for a variety of reasons, is by David Lebovitz,cookbook author/American expatriate/ former Chez Panisse pastry chef. His ongoing comic struggle with all things French is consistently entertaining; his epic saga of buying his new Parisian apartment and doing a gut renovation (!), both hilarious and hair-raising. If you like his books, this blog is a must.

In addition to the fine blogs above, Chicago rocker Steve Albini has an amusing blog:
http://mariobatalivoice.blogspot.com/

Jen

This thread is fairly old in a very changing world. Any food blogs or recipe sites that you are liking today??

For me:

She Simmers: http://shesimmers.com/

Unfortunately, my food blog of choice, Serious eats: http://seriouseats.com/ has seriously gone downhill.

lougord99 wrote:This thread is fairly old in a very changing world. Any food blogs or recipe sites that you are liking today??

For me:

She Simmers: http://shesimmers.com/

Unfortunately, my food blog of choice, Serious eats: http://seriouseats.com/ has seriously gone downhill.

My family also agrees Serious Eats has suddenly dropped in quality, right around when they got purchased.

Not really a fan of shesimmers, to me it's a very shallow look at Thai food. Her Massaman recipe, for instance, uses a jar of curry paste, which is a perfectly legitimate meal but not worth posting a "recipe" for. I will say here grandma's burmese chicken stew is like 90% as good as a real geng haeng lae at a fraction of the effort.

Here are some I enjoy:

http://thewoksoflife.com/ - Great all around Chinese.

http://themalaproject.com/ - Lean site now, but still amazing Sichuan food.

http://www.chinasichuanfood.com/ - more Sichuan

http://en.christinesrecipes.com/ - Asian baked Goods

http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/ - Vietnamese and Chinese

http://www.theravenouscouple.com/ - mostly Vietnamese with other trendy foods

http://migrationology.com/ - mostly food-related travel

http://www.topwithcinnamon.com/ - Great for sweets.

A bright and shiny voice just west of the city of Big Shoulders (Oak Park).

He isn't posting as frequently. In the past I have associated that with book writing.

Tim Mazurek's blog is Lottie and doof.
He is a previous winner of Saveur's best food blogs.

Chocolate and zucchini. French plus vegetarian. Quite charming.

Joan