All the Trimmings: Mouthwatering Food Blogs on WordPress.com
The holiday season is officially upon us: that special time of the year dedicated to friends, family, red-nosed reindeer, and—
Who are we kidding? It’s all about food! Glorious, comforting, yummy food. As millions of Americans are busy preparing for tomorrow’s turkey/turducken/tofurkey feasts, the food scene on WordPress.com is equally abuzz with recipes, food stories, and pictures that will make you drool over your screen. Here are some of our favorite food blogs — better not continue on an empty stomach…
Eating with your eyes
A picture is sometimes worth a thousand bites, and many food bloggers take their images seriously, pushing food photography to a whole new level. On cookinandshootin, for example, bloggers Tara Striano and Maria del Mar accompany the detailed recipes with crisp, bright photos. They make great use of Anthem‘s full-width content display to make the pictures pop.
Others follow suit: in Lattes and Leggings, New York-based blogger Jen presents her healthy preparations with photos that channel each season’s distinct textures and colors. Across the continent, in Los Angeles, former baker Paula Parsons showcases her delicious-looking creations on Love + Cupcakes, where well-lit food and elegant typography makes for an irresistible mix.
Taking a different approach, illustrator Heather Diane creates custom-made drawings for each post, infusing her site (soon to become a book), Illustrated Bites, with an unmistakable, tongue-in-cheek retro vibe.
Food and contemporary society
Eating is, of course, never separate from much larger questions about culture: it defines societies at least as much as language or politics.
For those interested in the social aspects of food and cooking, Tangerine and Cinnamon offers fascinating cultural analyses of food by Sarah Emily, a Johannesburg, South Africa-based writer. Sarah also curates extensive weekly lists of food-related news from across the world, from Jon Stewart’s takedown of Chicago pizza to Israel’s prickly pear shortage.
Over at Eatocracy, CNN’s food blog, you can find an ever-changing roster of stories on the intersection of eating and current events, as well as weekly chats with blog editors Kat Kinsmen and Sarah LeTrent, who are often joined by special culinary guests.
For a look at the environmental stakes of the comestibles we grow, produce, and consume, the food section of eco-centric news blog Grist will satisfy any reader curious to learn about the policies that affect our eating habits (or anyone interested in knowing how you can cook your turkey in the dishwasher).
Recipes for all dietary choices
Are you vegan and wonder how to make desserts decadent enough to satisfy your sweet-tooth friends? Is your nephew gluten-sensitive and you aren’t sure how to approach Thanksgiving dinner? WordPress.com food bloggers cover all possible ground in today’s ever-expanding map of dietary choices and restrictions.
At his blog, The Domestic Man, soon-to-be-published-author Russ Crandall focuses on healthy, fresh takes on the paleo diet. This increasingly visible food doctrine aims to replicate the healthy eating habits of our prehistoric ancestors who shunned grains and had no access to processed products.
In a similar vein, Pallavi Gupta, the north-Indian blogger behind Veggie Zest, promotes the benefits of vegetarianism and veganism with sleek photos of her fresh creations, as well as of the delicious street food she encounters around the world.
And, if you thought that producing yummy cakes without wheat-based products is impossible, you clearly haven’t visited The Pink Rose Bakery, baker-blogger Kirsten‘s gluten-free baking site. We haven’t tried her bundt cakes yet, but they sure look delicious.
Food, the ultimate cultural bridge
It’s near-impossible to understand different cultures — whether oceans away or across town — without paying attention to the way people eat. Luckily, in blogging as in real life, food invites us to explore and expand our cultural horizons.
Using food to negotiate the different backgrounds and locales that have shaped their relationship, the blogging couple behind Chef and Steward, based in the United Arab Emirates, share their love of food and discovery through health-conscious recipes and gorgeous photography. Likewise, Eva Wong, a Malaysian food blogger based in Finland, brings these two drastically different climates together in her blog, Spicy Tones, writing about cooking and reflecting on her childhood.
Blogging about food can elide not only geographic distances, but temporal ones, too. With the insight that food cultures of the past reveal so much about earlier periods, author, seasoned traveler, and food-history lover Cynthia D. Bertelsen digs into fascinating stories, like White House desserts from the nineteenth century or pear preservation in antiquity.
The dawn of modern cooking is explored in depth, too, in food-history blogs like Gastronomy Archaeology, the project of a self-avowed “British food nerd” who’s into medieval and Renaissance cookery. If colonial-era hearth-fire feasts and heirloom seeds are more your thing, Victoria Rumble, over at The Historicfoodie’s Blog, will quench your curiosity.
A blogging cornucopia
From the Roman Empire to present-day North America, people have never tired of talking, writing, and thinking about food. Whether you’re looking for a pumpkin pie recipe or a reflection on food tourism, WordPress.com bloggers are here to enrich your culinary knowledge, and prepare your taste buds for their next savory adventure.
Looking for more food bookmarks for a rainy-day, food-blog fix? Check out some of these sites:
- Paper and Salt, a blog focusing on the unexpected connections between delicious food and great literature.
- The Hungry Artist, a site by a book illustrator who’s also an avid cook, with many kid-friendly recipes.
- Emily Contois, a blog by a food studies scholar exploring the place of food and body image in contemporary culture.
- British Blokes Cooking, where musings about cooking and living in Cornwall are interspersed with recipes for dog treats.
- November 27, 2013
- Community, WordPress.com
I’ve been writing all week about low-salt Thanksgiving options for people like me who have been forced onto a low-salt diet by health issues. The quest to cut the salt all starts by buying a fresh turkey without any salt solutions injected into it. You can read more at nosaltnofatnosugar.com
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Like warm apple pie..
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Yummie, all that food isn’t good for me, haha!
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I pretty much just followed every single one of these.
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Yum!!! Mouth-watering morsels! Slurp!
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I’m sure there are lots of food blogs to choose from but I’m sad that our blog isn’t one of them (www.onerecipetwokitchens.wordpress.com). We’re unique because we’re a mother/son team who cook the same recipe but live in different cities. Check us out!
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As you correctly guessed, there are thousands of great food blogs on WordPress.com, and this roundup is anything but exhaustive. On the contrary, I hope this post inspires our users to look for other great sites they might not have visited yet. Thanks for sharing your blog.
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Really nice featuring food blogs here, hope to see more of them in the future 🙂
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I just gained five pounds looking at this. It’s worth it!
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Nice to read about blogs with a different take on food. Usually I visit them just for recipes but these are unique. Thanks.
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That apple pie looks great. 🙂
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Talk about Yum!
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Loved the tour of a few of the great and unusual food blogs. This is a time of good food, family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving to the American bloggers. And Bon appetit to all others. Sue
Womenlivinglifeafter50.com
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Your apple pie looks amazing!!
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Luv it! I recently started blogging all the new recipes I make for my family,and rate them. It has opened new doors for my family. I have been invited three times now by our local CBS station for cooking segments on their Morning show,and I absolutely enjoy it. Happy Turkey Day Friends! Eat Drink and be Merry!!!
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Yummie is all I can say !
cookin and shootin seems a nice good looking blog…
illustratedbites.wordpress.com is very nicely prepared blog, much appreciated
I can say all are nice 🙂
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Apple pie … mouthwateringly gorgeous!
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Thanks for the mention! It is greatly appreciated. I was wondering why things had gone a little crazy on the followers front! Until I came across this link / post I thought maybe I had finally found the magic ‘posting hour’! Thanks again 🙂
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Very nice food blogs here
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What theme is Eatocracy using? That’s just gorgeous! I presume it’s a custom build?
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Eatocracy’s theme is, indeed, custom-built. But you can also achieve a similar look by choosing a theme with three columns and a post slider, two of the site’s most distinct features.
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What I really like is the way it features categories in columns. That’s exceedingly rare in the theme showcase.
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All of the photos of the American’s thanksgiving dinners are making my mouth water, as is the photo of the apple pie at the top! It looks amazing!
http://www.iamdaniellekent.wordpress.com
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Excellent information. I enjoyed your article very much! I am having my first Thanksgiving as an insulin dependent diabetic. I was diagnosed last January. I have found many good recipes through articles just like this. I just have to substitute some ingredients for others! Thank you and happy Thanksgiving!
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I only wish my apply pie would look like this………..I’ve tried so hard!
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Nothing says American like apple pie. Proud and thankful that my parents were apple growers!!
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Thank you so much for featuring my Honey Scones Illustration!
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A very HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and your family.
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I love pictures of food, always have. Information is a plus, but a good photo sells the post.
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So many fantastic food blogs here!
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Great looking food and interesting to read. This is the first time i entered your blog so haven´t had the time to go through everything so I´ll just ask. Have you written anything about Glutenfree diet? Would love to hear options how to make a crusty jummy applepie but glutenfree.
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Check out The Pink Rose Bakery, featured above in this post — it’s a site dedicated exclusively to delicious, gluten-free baking!
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OK cool. Thanks for the tip 🙂
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Food, great Thanksgiving topic.
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Looks yummy. I love experimenting with food.
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I just cannot help myself when it comes to apple pies. Ever since I was a young man when my mother showed me how to make apple pies, I have just loved them to the top of my pallet.
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Beautiful! Happy Thanksgiving to my WordPress.com family of food bloggers. 😀
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great photographs…a treat to the eye :).
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all look yum!!!
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I feel fat just looking at the pictures.
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this is is fantastic article! just started my food blog (ifyougiveablondeakitchen.wordpress.com) and this is more than inspiring, thank you!
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Thank you for this list! I love getting inspired from other food bloggers!
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really inspiring, thanks.
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