Vote for the Culinary Website/Blog You Like Best

Historically, I've posted the links for several food blogging polls.  This one is from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and it is the ballot for the People's Choice award with the website urls, not live links, I'm sorry to say.  Since I don't have the relationship with IACP that I had with the other contest, I'm not reposting the links, but I urge you to check out some of these food blogs and add them to your daily information diet. Then vote for your favorite.

Live Links for the Food Blog Awards

Once again, as a public service, I'm taking time to make the links to the nominees for the Food Blog Awards "live." Please note, you can only vote at the Well Fed site. If you'd like to see the nominees for last year's awards, please click here. Voting ends on Friday, December 14th.


Best Food Blog - Chef category:

David Lebovitz
Dorie Greenspan
Eggbeater
Ideas in Food
Ruhlman

Best Food Blog - City category:

Becks and Posh - http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/
Blissful Glutton - http://blissfulglutton.blogspot.com/
Eating Asia - http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/
Krista in London - http://kristainlondon.typepad.com/
Grab Your Fork - http://grabyourfork.blogspot.com/

Best Blog Covering Drinks category:

Cocktail Chronicles - http://www.cocktailchronicles.com/
Dr. Vino - www.drvino.com/
Jeffrey Morgenthaler - http://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/
Lenndevours - http://www.lenndevours.com/
Married with Dinner - http://www.marriedwithdinner.com/

Best Food Blog - Family/Kids category:

Daily Tiffin - http://dailytiffin.blogspot.com/
Dine and Dish - http://dineanddish.squarespace.com/dine-and-dish-blog/
Food on the Food - http://foodonthefood.com/
Lunch In A Box - http://lunchinabox.net/
The Great Big Vegetable Challenge - http://www.greatbigvegchallenge.blogspot.com/

Best Food Blog - Group category:

Cook Think - http://www.cookthink.com/blog
Ethicurean - http://www.ethicurean.com/
Ideas in Food - http://ideasinfood.typepad.com/ideas_in_food/
Serious Eats - http://www.seriouseats.com/
Slash Food - http://www.slashfood.com/

Best Food Blog - Humor category:

Amateur Gourmet - http://www.amateurgourmet.com/
Food Network Addict - http://www.foodnetworkaddict.com/
Food on the Food - http://www.foodonthefood.com/
French Laundry at Home - http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/
The Girl Who Ate Everything - http://www.roboppy.net/food/

Best Food Blog - Industry category:

Eggbeater - http://eggbeater.typepad.com/
The Food Whore - http://www.thefoodwhore.com/
Ruhlman - http://ruhlman.typepad.com/
US Food Policy Blog - http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/
Word of Mouth/Guardian - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/

Best Food Blog - New category:

French Laundry at Home - http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/
Hogwash - http://jessthomson.wordpress.com/
Jaden's Steamy Kitchen - http://www.steamykitchen.com/blog
ZOMG, Candy! - http://zomgcandy.com/

Best Food Blog - Photography category:

Becks Posh Nosh - http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/
Jaden's Steamy Kitchen - http://www.steamykitchen.com/blog/
La Tartine Gourmande - http://www.latartinegourmande.com/
Matt Bites - http://mattbites.typepad.com/mattbites
What's for Lunch, Honey? - http://whatsforlunchhoney.blogspot.com/

Best Food Blog - Post category:

Bonappegeek - http://www.bonappegeek.com/2007/02/22/spoon-swoon/
Eggbeater - http://eggbeater.typepad.com/shuna/2007/06/famous_recipes.html
FoodBlogga - http://foodblogga.blogspot.com/2007/01/waffles-coffee-and-lentil-soup.html
Gluten-Free Girl - http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/2007/05/do-you-have-celiac-disease.html
Orangette - http://orangette.blogspot.com/2007/08/so-we-feasted.html

Best Food Blog - Rural category:

Farmgirl Fare - http://farmgirlfare.com/
Garlic Breath - http://garlic-breath.blogspot.com/
Lucullian - http://lucullian.blogspot.com/
Nami-Nami - http://www.nami-nami.blogspot.com/

Best Food Blog - Theme category:

Candy Blog - http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/
Eat Local Challenge - http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/
Fat- Free Vegan - http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
Lunch In A Box - http://lunchinabox.net/
Meathenge - http://www.cyberbilly.com/meathenge/

Best Food Blog - Writing category:

Wednesday Chef - http://wednesdaychef.typepad.com/
Jaden's Steamy Kitchen - http://steamykitchen.com/blog/
Bittersweet Blog - http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/
Cook Sister - http://www.cooksister.com/
Gluten-Free Girl - http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/

And last but certainly not least:

Best Food Blog of the Year category:
101 Cookbooks - http://www.101cookbooks.com/
Eat Local Challenge - http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/
Gluten-Free Girl - http://www.glutenfreegirl.com/
La Tartine Gourmande - http://www.latartinegourmande.com/
Lucullian Delights - http://lucullian.blogspot.com/

SHAMELESS PLUG: Once you've checked out the Food Blog Award nominees, I hope you'll check out the prizes and consider donating to Menu for Hope 4. Help support the UN World Food Programme by buying virtual raffle tickets until December 21 to win prizes donated by food bloggers around the world. Read more about it here.

The Nominees Are ... Live Links for the Food Blog Awards

Through the magic of copy and paste and way too much time spent doing other than productive work, Blog Appetit brings you clickable links to all the nominees for the Well Fed Network's 2006 Food Blog Awards.

If you have already checked out the voting, you know the sophisticated and clever program that records your vote and does not allow for voting early and often also does not permit live links so you can check out a blog you might not be as familiar with as you like.

As a public service, Blog Appetit has done all that copying and pasting for you (hopefully correctly), so check out the nominees here and then go and vote on Well Fed. Here's a link to the balloting. Polls close on January 9th at midnight EST.

Thanks to the folks at Well Fed Network for hosting this event. Leave me a comment if I've messed up or a link is off and I'll fix it.

Well, here they are. Get ready to give your back button a work out and get clicking.

Best Food Blog (hereafter referred to as BFB) -- Overall

Traveler’s Lunchbox (http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/)
La Tartine Gourmande (http://www.beaskitchen.com/blog/)
Orangette (http://orangette.blogspot.com/)
The Passionate Cook (http://www.thepassionatecook.com)
Simply Recipes (http://www.simplyrecipes.com)

BFB -Chef

Corduroy Orange (http://corduroyorange.com)
Aidan Brooks (http://aidanbrooks.blogspot.com/)
David Lebovitz (http://www.davidlebovitz.com)
Lovescool (http://www.lovescool.com)
Eggbeater (http://eggbeater.typepad.com/)

BFB - City

Becks ‘n Posh (http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com)
NYC Nosh (http://www.nycnosh.com)
Blue Lotus (http://blue_moon.typepad.com/)
Kitchen Notebook (http://kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com/)
Londonelicious (http://kristainlondon.typepad.com

BFB - Drinks

Vinography (http://www.vinography.com)
Cork Dork (http://corkdork.typepad.com/)
Spittoon (http://Spittoon.biz)
Basic Juice (http://basicjuice.blogs.com/basicjuice/)
The Pour (http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/)

BFB- Food Industry

The Food Section (http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/)
Eggbeater (http://eggbeater.typepad.com/)
US Food Policy (http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/index.html)
Tavern Wench (http://tavernwench.blogspot.com/)
Chef Manifesto (http://www.chefmanifesto.com/)

BFB - Photography

Spittoon Extra (http://www.spittoonextra.biz/)
Cook and Eat (http://cookandeat.com/)
Eating Asia (http://eatingasia.typepad.com)
La Tartine Gourmande (http://www.beaskitchen.com/blog/)

Please note: The following nominee has requested that Well Fed remove her blog from the list for personal reasons. I am leaving her link in so if you are not familiar with her work you can check it out for yourself. Please vote for one of the other four sites:
Nordljus (http://www.nordljus.co.uk/)



BFB - Non Blogging

Food and Wine (http://www.foodandwine.com)
Cooking Light (http://www.cookinglight.com)
Chow (http://www.chow.com)
Epicurious (http://www.epicurious.com)
Leite’s Culinaria (http://www.leitesculinaria.com/)

BFB - City

Becks ‘n Posh (http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com)
NYC Nosh (http://www.nycnosh.com)
Blue Lotus (http://blue_moon.typepad.com/)
Kitchen Notebook (http://kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com/)
Londonelicious (http://kristainlondon.typepad.com/)

BFB - Group

Hungry Magazine (http://www.hungrymag.com)
Chow Magazine’s Blog (http://www.chow.com/grinder/)
Slashfood (http://www.slashfood.com)
The Ethicurean (http://www.ethicurean.com/)
Lasang Pinoy (http://lasangpinoy.blogspot.com/)

BFB - Family/Kids

Vegan Lunchbox (http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/)
Sweetnicks (http://www.sweetnicks.com)
Cooking with Anne (http://www.cookingwithanne.blogspot.com/)
Daily Tiffin (http://dailytiffin.blogspot.com/)
Gastro Kid (http://www.gastrokid.com/

BFB - Humor

Acme Instant Food (http://acmeinstantfood.blogspot.com/)
The Food Whore (http://www.thefoodwhore.com)
Smitten Kitchen (http://smittenkitchen.com)
Chef Manifesto (http://chefmanifesto.com)
Bonappegeek (http://www.bonappegeek.com/

BFB- New

Everything Rachael Ray (http://www.everythingrachaelray.com)
My Husband Cooks (http://myhusbandcooks.wordpress.com)
Aidan Brooks (http://www.aidanbrooks.blogspot.com/)
Pinch My Salt (http://pinchmysalt.wordpress.com/)
Jumbo Empanadas (http://jumboempanadas.blogspot.com/)

BFB - Original Recipes

Coconut and Lime (http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/)
Seriously Good (http://www.seriouslygood.kdweeks.com/)
Scrumptious Street (http://scrumptious.typepad.com/)
Stephen Cooks (http://www.stephencooks.com)
The Passionate Cook (http://www.thepassionatecook.com)

BFB - Writing/Posts

These links didn't copy and paste correctly, however the Well Fed ballot does have live links to all the nominated posts. To go to the post, click here.


BFB - Recipes

Rice and Noodles (http://www.maegabriel.com/riceandnoodles/)
Tartelette (http://www.tartelette.blogspot.com)
Orangette (http://orangette.blogspot.com/)
101 Cookbooks (http://www.101cookbooks.com)
Appon’s Thai Food (http://www.khiewchanta.com/index.html)

BFB - Restaurant Reviews

NYC Nosh (http://www.nycnosh.com)
Onokinegrindz (http://www.onokinegrindz.com)
Becks ‘n Posh (http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com)
DC Foodies (http://www.dcfoodies.com)
Grab Your Fork (http://grabyourfork.blogspot.com/)

BFB - Rural

I Heart Farms (http://smallfarms.typepad.com/)
Lucullian Delights (http://lucullian.blogspot.com/)
Gluten Free Goddess (http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/)
Field to Feast (http://www.fieldtofeast.blogspot.com/ )
Farmgirl Fare (http://www.foodiefarmgirl.blogspot.com/)

BFB - Theme

Everything Rachael Ray (http://www.everythingrachaelray.com)
Kalyn’s Kitchen (http://www.kalynskitchen.com)
Gluten Free Girl (http://www.glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/
Meathenge (http://www.cyberbilly.com/meathenge/
Sushi Day (http://sushiday.com/)

BFB - Writing

Brandon Eats (http://www.brandoneats.com)
Kitchen Notebook (http://kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com/)
Orangette (http://orangette.blogspot.com)
Traveler’s Lunchbox (http://www.travelerslunchbox.com)
Cream Puffs in Venice (http://creampuffsinvenice.typepad.com

UPDATE: The above are for blogging achievements in 2006. Want to see the nominees for 2007? Click here.

Vote for Your Favorite Food Blogs

Time to vote over at Well Fed for your favorite food blogs of the year. Click here to be whisked away to the balloting. Blog Appetit is not a contender (which is too bad, because I'm sure we'd be crowned Ms. Blog Congeniality), but lots of her colleagues are, so click on over and vote (and maybe find out about a great food blog or two you didn't know about). Last date to vote is January 9th.

It's Time to Name Your Favorite Blogs and Posts of the Year

They are the blogs that have inspired you, made you laugh, informed you, entertained you and maybe given you a recipe or two that have led you to culinary greatness. Now is your chance to acknowledge the impact these blogs and their creators have had on you (or at least the time you spend every day reading them). But HURRY, you have only until midnight EST tonight, December 15th, to submit your nominations for Well Fed Network's Food Blogs of the Year Awards.

For all the details, please go to Well Fed's post on the topic here. The top five nominations in each category will be posted for voting on December 23 and voting continues until the end of the month.

So click on over to Well Fed or use the links below and let the judges know what food bloggers and blogs are nomination-worthy in the following categories:

Best Food Blog - City
Best Food Blog - Rural
Best Food Blog - Writing
Best Food Blog - Humor
Best Food Blog - Photography
Best Food Blog - Restaurant Reviews
Best Food Blog - Family/Kids
Best New Food Blog
Best Non-Blogging Food Site
Best Food Blog - Original Recipes (More than 75%)
Best Food Blog - Recipes
Best Food Blog - Group
Best Blog Covering the Food Industry
Best Food Blog - Post
Best Food Blog by a Chef
Best Food Blog - Theme
Best Food Blog Covering Drinks (Alcohol/Non-Alcohol)
Best Overall Food Blog

Food Blog Award Nominations Close Today

If you haven't already nominated your favorite food blogs of 2005, it's not too late. Click on over to the Accidental Hedonist at Food Blog Nominations to see the categories and add your own nominations.

Even if you don't have any nominations in mind, it's fun to click through the nominations and find new food blogs to check out. I'm doing that and have found a few to post in Blog Appetit's links section soon.

Nominations close at midnight (although, I have no idea in what timezone, since she doesn't specify). So if you have a blog to nominate, the sooner the better.

You Read It Here First

A big thank you to Slashfood for selecting Blog Appetit's pair of pumpkin postings (see below) for it's Editor's Choice Award in the Great Pumpkin Day competition.

To see the award winners or to surf the other (delicious looking) entries, go to http://www.slashfood.com/ and search under pumpkin.

In other Blog Appetit news, I've enabled the "email me" function. Got something to tell FJK? Click on my profile and then the email me selection and your words will be in my inbox before you know it!

Still to come: I hope to figure out how to link directly to posts such as The Great Pumpkin Day Contest at Slashfood and add links to the blogs I know and love and want you to know about. Remember this is just a baby blog, not even a month old. Got suggestions for it's care and feeding? Leave a comment on this post or use the new email me feature.

Update:  I did indeed eventually figure out how to create a link -- so here's the link to my Slashfood editor's choice award for my pumpkin posts.

Publications, Prizes and Other Vanities

Prizes/Honors:

Slashfood's Editor's Choice Award for my two-part post on selecting and cooking with pumpkins (and recipes for mini-pumpkin pies and pumpkin chili in its Great Pumpkin Day Competition.

Named one of the top 100 food blogs by Indivily on 8/12. Website is defunct. See contents of post at the Wayback Machine internet archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20120810022128/http://www.indivly.com/post/food/top-100-food-bloggers

Publications:

I write a twice-monthly cooking column in the j., the San Francisco Bay Area's Jewish newsweekly. (48,000 weekly print circulation and on line).

I have contributed to Olive, a BBC food publication in Britain.

I wrote nine articles totalling about 13,000 words ranging from the history and business outlook for pickles to diet food and obesity and how food businesses use the internet for marketing for the Encyclopedia of the Food Business (Greenwood Press).

I am a contributer to Molly O'Neill's One Big Table cookbook.

I have posted many, many pieces on Well Fed Network, including a year-long series on tasting See's Candies. (Note the Well Fed links are broken.  Some posts can be recovered via the Way Back Machine.)

I write a monthly food column for the Temple Beth Abraham (Oakland, CA) publication The Omer.

You can always see what I have written for others by checking the See What I Wrote category in the right hand side sidebar of the blog.

Selected Web Mentions:

Laexaminer.com -- Recipes for the Passover Jewish Holiday
One of the Mushroom Channel's recipes of the week (10.16.09)
Included in Ready Made Magazine's web roundup of fish stews (11.30.10)
My Chanukah wrap up was featured in BlogHer on 12.13.11
Included in About.com Guide to Eastern European Food for my stuffed cabbage meat loaf recipe (1.10.12)
The same recipe was featured as a Super Bowl party contender on 2.3.12
Canadian Jewish News Passover favorites - 3.23.12
Chanukah Cocktails featured on thedailymeal.com -- 12.6.12

Updated: 1.27.18