Cooking & Recipe Blogs

Blogs sharing recipes and cooking tips as well as journals by chefs, food critics and food authors.

Resources in this category:

Accidental Hedonist
http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/

Kate, an aspiring travel and food writer and Seattle resident, provides the content for this great web site providing lots of recipes, restaurant reviews, and deep thoughts on food, like how Seattle’s Best Coffee doesn’t even make the top 4.

Amuse Bouche
http://countingsheep.typepad.com/amuse_bouche/

Jo and Brian, both once in dead-end IT jobs, eventually found themselves at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Massachusettes. Amuse Bouche "is all about Foodie Stuff" from Jo’s perspective, but link-clicking will take you to other blogs sharing Brian’s and Jo’s experiences as they go through culinary school and life-in-general, as well as to other blogs on food.

Asian Online Recipes
http://www.asianonlinerecipes.com/rss/

Blog that helps the novice cook learn how to cook the foods of the Far East. Each blog post provides a lesson on the basics of the Asian style of cooking.

Chez Pim
http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/

Providing excellent restaurant reviews, perpetual Ph.D. student Pim is a San Franciscan high-tech worker who loves to find the best meals at the best restaurants, and she travels a lot to London and Paris, providing an insider’s look at the restaurant across the pond.

Chocolate and Zucchini
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/

Clotilde Dusoulier is a Parisian epicure whose blog has drawn 200,000 visitors a month with her easy-to-make recipes, refined tastes, and brief glimpses into her life in France. She also has a food column on NPR.org. The ’Zucchini’ in the title represents her preference for natural, fresh (but not too expensive) food, and the ’Chocolate’ represents her ’decidedly marked taste for anything sweet in general and chocolate, glorious chocolate, in particular.’

Cooking with Amy
http://cookingwithamy.blogspot.com/

Providing recipes, reviews, and some San Francisco bay area history and culture, Amy Sherman has won several awards for this blogs. She also provides a drop-down menus for food ideas sorted by the type of meal you’re eating (breakfast, dinner, etc.).

The Domestic Goddess
http://www.domesticgoddess.ca/

This Canadian blogger took to cooking after taking a break from her nursing career. This blogger shares her recipes, her personal reviews of restuarants, and her life (of course) in Toronto. From the site’s about the "goddess" page: "As you might deduce from my recipes page I am slightly more interested in baking sweets than in cooking meals. While I do enjoy cooking savory treats, it just seems that I lean towards the sugary delicacies more often; I simply find myself being more creative with desserts. On top of that, I’ve decided to start a home-based business; cakes and other desserts for order."

The Food Section
http://www.thefoodsection.com/

From the "About the Food Section" page: "Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised on the mean streets of the "Gourmet Ghetto" of Berkeley, California, Josh Friedland has pursued a lifelong passion for cooking and dining. In July 2003, he turned his obsession into The Food Section (thefoodsection.com), a pioneering weblog about food, wine, and travel. Based in New York City, The Food Section publishes original food writing and photography and scours the web for links to culinary news and events, recipes, and gastronomical ephemera."

Foodgoat
http://foodgoat.blogspot.com/

Rochelle Ponsaran, Ladygoat, is usually the author of this blog, describing all the food she and her husband, Foodgoat, eat. More food-related news and discussions than recipes, this blog discusses the bas o haut couture, from White Castle sliders and confessions about wanting to see Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle to creating Jambalaya.

Foodie
http://blog.foodienyc.com/

Advertising executive Joe DeSalazar started this blog as a personal log of dishes and recipes. DeSalazar has spent years perfecting techiniques of master chefs. This New Yorker has been a chef in three-star restaurants and writes his own food column.

Gastronome
http://www.estarcion.com/gastronome/

Collaborative blog where recipes, menus, menu-planning, and informal restaurant reviews are shared with visitors to the blog.

KIPlog’s Foodlog - links
http://kiplog.com/food/foodlinks.htm

The mother of all things culinary and gastronomic on the web - a comprehensive index blogs and other food-related web resources. A must-see if you like to eat.

Orangette
http://orangette.blogspot.com/

A trip to Paris inspired this Francophile, former Ph.D. student to cook as much as possible and write about her favorite and newly discovered recipies and dishes. Her blog often comments on her own life, but she almost always weaves these anecdotes around something food-related.

Simply Recipes
http://www.elise.com/recipes/

Tech consultant Elise Bauer started posting her family recipes to her website. Increased time with her family, the innovation of blogging, and the allure of using fresh ingredients in tasty recipes led to the creation of this site, focused on recipes and often the stories behind the blogger’s encounter with the recipes.

Super Chef Blog
http://www.superchefblog.com/

Markedly different than other cooking blogs, Super Chef Blog began as a book, Super Chef, that investigated how the superstars of the culinary scene (a la Emeril) were created. This blog follows the creation and going-ons of the "super chefs," i.e., chefs that had become so popular as to expand beyond the culinary scene.

Vinography: A Wine Blog
http://www.vinography.com/

his San Francisco blogger shares his knowledge and love of wine, from where to buy to what food you should eat with it. The blog offers many links to other blogs, sites, and books on wine.