Introducing FoodPress
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
Those wise words are from celebrity chef Julia Child, who was never shy about following her passions in life.
Serving up the hottest dishes on WordPress.com
Child was passionate about many things, but especially food — and she shares that in common with WordPress.com bloggers, who publish thousands of mouth-watering recipes and food stories every day.
For that reason, we couldn’t resist building a special new site dedicated to showing off the amazing breadth of food-related posts on WordPress.com. Today we’re thrilled to announce FoodPress, the go-to destination for the hottest dishes from WordPress.com bloggers. To help us run the site, we’ve partnered with publishing company Federated Media. Each day, FoodPress features snippets of posts, which is designed to get new people to discover and then click through to a blog.
How to Get Featured?
If you’re wondering how posts are selected for the site, it’s easy: They’re all hand-picked by FoodPress editor Jane Maynard. She finds most of the posts by scouring food-related tag pages like food, recipes, baking, cocktails, and more — so if you’re a food blogger, be sure to use tags on your posts.
We hope you enjoy FoodPress as much as we do. But be forewarned: Viewing the site is known to cause hunger pangs!
- November 1, 2010
- New Features
WordPress.com News 
I love this idea so much!
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I’m so happy for this. To be honest I had no idea who Julia Child was until I saw the film Julie & Julia and I was moved and inspired in many ways. Like Michael commented above it would be a nice idea to include restaurant blogs from all over the world. Wish to Foodpress the best.
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I don’t like to write about food. And I don’t particularly like to cook food. But I sure do enjoy reading about it and looking at pretty pictures of it!
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Great Idea! Food has been my passion for over forty years and to this day I’m still obsessed in the imagination at work with this medium.
Robert
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Genius idea! So how will the author of the chosen food blog be notified that theirs will be the one featured? PS: The Modern Wife’s kitchen is always open 😉
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Most of the content is hand-picked by our editor, Jane Maynard and she’ll email most of the featured bloggers as they are featured.
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Great idea!!
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Are you only featuring WordPress.com blogs, or also WordPress.org? My Camp Blogaway for Food & Recipe Bloggers is a WordPress.com site, but my Worth The Whisk is a .org. Thanks for this great opp.
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Only WordPress.com blogs for now.
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@ Netty Gritty How about photopress, artpress and music press?
I agree, and would like to add SoulPress 🙂
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Food bloggers for life! 🙂
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As a chef/restaurant owner, a food and travel writer, and a fellow wordpress blogger, I’m thrilled to see the addition of FoodPress. I currently have four blogs on wordpress, three of which are food related. I run the resturant with my husband and we do a big catering business as well. Tomorrow from 5am to 7am we’ll be serving up our popular Country Sausage Gravy and Biscuits at the CBS Morning Show live feed being shot here. Something’s always happening at The Deli Diva (name of the restaurant and myself…hubby is the Deli Dude, of course!) 😉 Thanks for adding this blog for all of us foodies out here!
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LOL @ FoodPress
seriously had to take a double take when the link to this appeared in my dashboard, it tripped me out almost thought i was seeing things lol
food is good and cool that WP will be featuring food blogs…there sure is alot of them around which are very “Tastefully” done by the way
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Nice 🙂 I like how posts are hand picked, ensuring a great quality 🙂 Keep up the good work WP
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want to know more…. 🙂
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Oh my!! I am quite excited 🙂
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Congratulations! This is the joining of two great ideas. I’m looking forward to learning lots of new recipes and enjoying the epicurean world of food “porn!”
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This is perfect timing since the holidays are coming up. I can’t wait to read the scrumptious recipes! 🙂
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This sounds amazing, figures crossed my blog will feature…
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Thanks for organizing all of the great food blogs here on wordpress for us! There are SO many food blogs out there – just a warning to those who are just getting into food blogging (reading OR doing)…. make sure to get off the computer and cook things (there have been many nights I have just drooled over things and never gotten off the couch to cook)!
🙂 ringr.wordpress.com
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Nice.
Fooooood!
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This is a wonderful idea. Great new way to approach sharing everyone’s love of food!
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wow
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that’s so great! Looking forward to FoodPress!
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i’m looking forward to it!
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To be frank, I post my food related pictures in my facebook account. (Some people know me because of that. ha ha ha.) Maybe I should post in my wordpress blog also? hmm…
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We think you should indeed. 😉
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Plus, if you post it to your WordPress.com blog, you can also instantly publish it to Facebook, twitter and more by using our publicize feature, so you’re not losing anything, only gaining.
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I noticed that those posts in foodpress are in English, but my blog is in Bahasa Indonesia. Oh well … 🙂
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Fantastic idee! but I don`t use tags either……
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I love it!! So happy with my choice to use wordpress!! This is fab!
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Awesome! So excited, thank you!
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It’s cool that you’re finding new ways to monetise content that don’t involve defacing our blogs with even more ads, but I remain slightly concerned that this continues the trend of marginalising blogs that aren’t easily pigeonholed into consumer-friendly categories. And non-English blogs, of course.
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Glad to hear you like the new approach! If all goes well, we hope to be able to expand this to more niche topics/blogs and non-English blogs, too, of course.
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Unfortunately I never made a post about food. Nevertheless this is a great breakthrough. Hopefully the future is not only just Foodpress
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I love this idea!
Very excited to see the greatness of what WordPress does for food!
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I like but… Everyone wants a site about its own passion… What about CyclePress, AstronomyPress, LovePress, KangarooPress and more.
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NOM NOM NOM! Can’t wait to see all of the great foods featured! I’m just now starting to really cook things (after 31 years of living, it has certainly taken me long enough) and I look forward to the blog!
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Amazing and Great idea. Thanks.
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Great idea! ;p
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This is brilliant news!!! Will it be unique recipes only or anything food related? My food focused blog paints with a very broad brush across any and everything that incorporates or encourages the consumption of food. Design, art, etc etc.
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Very cool idea. I’m excited to see what ends up being featured. 😀
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This might make me fat! LOL! Always seems like great food ideas come from bloggers! 🙂
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I am a big fan of food. This is an awesome idea! Navigating through a whole plethora of sites just to learn about new foods. I like it!
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This is really great for food lovers. This is genius!
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Very excited to see this! I’m a dedicated foodie and can’t wait to find other inspiring blogs to check out… And maybe somebody will be just as excited to find mine 🙂
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Great idea! I’m surprised that food was your first one out of the gate – would’ve suspected music but it meets my needs.
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What a wonderful idea, and JUST in time for Vegan MoFo!!
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Sure hope FoodPress covers food politics, too!
8)
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wow this is cool.. i love baking and just recently started posting my recipes on WordPress.. hope to get featured on FoodPress.. 🙂
would also like to have an introduction of ArtPress and CraftPress for great creative projects..
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I think I can contribute some Chinese elements to Foodpress
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Great work guys – I don’t do any of the cooking at home but I will definitely pass along any recommended recipes to my partner!!! 🙂
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terrific! i’m food obsessed, as evidenced by my blog!
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Excellent. Good job.
How about adding an allergy category for those who need to go gluten/wheat free and/or dairy free and/or egg free, and or nut free.
Speaking of nuts, I’m nuts about WordPress.
Thanks!
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wonderful news! So glad to be a part of this community of food bloggers!
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I think this is great. I am always looking for new and exciting recipes.
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How fortuitous. I am a foodie and a journalist who just recently started my own food blog. I am so excited to have the opportunity to be featured. Thanks WP for the support! 🙂
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Everyone loves looking at food for some reason? Why is that, I will be back in a minute, going to get something to eat… Actually, now we need some good foodie Themes. Any suggestions people?
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Oh this rocks!
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Sensational news, and a great idea to bring all us self-confessed foodie bloggers together. Love your work, cheers from Gastronomel
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Only WordPress could come up with such ideas! Ready to be flooded by African recipes? Right now, I already feel hungry.
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This is a fantastic site!! Can’t wait to see more of what it produces
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Very well
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Great! I hope some of mine get picked! Be interest to see how much traffic this initiative will bring to WordPress bloggers.. 🙂
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Global fusion food all the way!
Great news!
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awesome idea 😀
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As food blogger, I’m VERY excited to hear this news and share my recipes, discoveries and general food musings with other avid foodies! Bon Appetit!
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Funny, this! Wrote about Julia Child as well today!
Thanx for this, I will follow certainly!
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love this idea, although my blog isn’t focused solely on food! 😀
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A smacking delicous idea. I’m a fan 😛
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Ahh, this is so great! Foodies alike will really love this all-in-one feature being added to WP. Should make things so much easier to find now with it in one central blog now. 🙂
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Making me hungry !!!
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Yey! What a great idea. Sign me up 🙂
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Yummy!! It’s a gastronomical blessing indeed 😀
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Coolness. Foodpress for foodaholics YAY! 😮 can’t get any better then this. Love it! 😀
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Another unexpected delight from worpress!
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SuperbLy Awesome.. !!!
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FOODPRESS….AND HEALTHY OF COURSE…..I LIKE IT
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that’s cool. feature me! 🙂
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I visited FoodPress and loved it!
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You should have a section for Lactose Intolerant or Lactards as I like to call it.
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loving it…means I spent each day two hours more reading online…
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Awesome
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I sure hope you include “bento” in your tags. 🙂
Never occured to tag my posts as ‘food’ LOL.
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what a brilliant idea and way to get news on food blogs! Thanks!
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Very cool – hope I can make the list one day!
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Very exciting. Looking forward to some good recipes. Great concept!
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This is fantastic! The visits to Gourmetician are increasing daily and I look forward to Food Press spreading the word.
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Neat! Have been very caught up in NaNoWriMo for the past few days so I just caught wind of this, but it’s really exciting. Sounds like a great way to catch wind of other great food bloggers.
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It really is a very creative idea! I must read all of your other posts to get some more ideas 🙂
My blog is about permaculture gardening and my garden and writing about the adventures in it really is my passion. The only problem is that I write in Slovene (Slovenia is a small country between Italy in Austria in Europe). I know I would reach many more readers if I would write in English too. Is there already a solution in wordpress for bi-lingual bloggers?
Thank you for your support and keep up the good work!
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My blog is partly inspired by the Julia Child movie.
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