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Food Blogs Sweep the 2010 Bloggies (Best Blog Awards)

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It's an insidious plot. Food blogs are mounting a V-like alien invasion of the blogosphere. With soft words, we beguile, "We bring you butter and bacon. Life on blog will be forever better." Bearing dSLRs and 50mm lenses, we tempt. Cupcakes! Caramel! 'Tis no hoax, food bloggers aim to control -- take over! rule forever! -- the entire blog world. New evidence reveals that our nefarious plan is working. Just look -- look! -- how food blogs have infiltrated nearly every category of The Bloggies, the annual best-blog awards.

Food blogs, we have our own category in the best-blog awards. You knitting blogs? You crafty blogs? You mommy blogs? Ha! Do you have your very own category? No, but we food bloggers do. (Hmm, what's up with that anyway? Why is it that knitting blogs and crafty blogs and heavens, mommy blogs, and golf blogs and political blogs and fashion blogs and so many other blog genres get lumped together? Sign me up to support a campaign to expand the range of topics awarded visibility and recognition. Seriously.)

BEST FOOD BLOG - all candidates
Joy the Baker
Cake Wrecks
101 Cookbooks
Bakerella
Smitten Kitchen

But then, the plot thickens. Food bloggers have invaded the best-blog categories of whole countries and entire continents. In Canada, Europe and all of Asia, food bloggers nabbed two of five spots.

BEST CANADIAN BLOG - food blog candidates
Everybody Likes Sandwiches
Gourmet Fury

BEST EUROPEAN BLOG - food blog candidates
Chocolate & Zucchini
What's for lunch, Honey?

BEST ASIAN BLOG - food blog candidates
Eating Asia
I eat, I shoot, I post

BEST LATIN AMERICAN BLOG - food blog candidate
Taxi Gourmet

In one category after another, food blogs plant their spatulas.

BLOG OF THE YEAR - food blog candidate
The Pioneer Woman

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - food blog candidate
Simply Recipes

BEST DESIGNED BLOG - food blog candidates
The Pioneer Woman
Bakerella

BEST NEW BLOG - food blog candidate
Savour Fare

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG - food blog candidate
Smitten Kitchen

BEST TEEN BLOG - food blog candidate
17 and baking

MOST HUMOROUS BLOG - food blog candidate
Cake Wrecks

BEST WRITING - food blog candidate
The Pioneer Woman

BEST GROUP BLOG - food blog candidate
Serious Eats

BEST COMMUNITY BLOG - food blog candidate
BlogHer
Okay, so BlogHer isn't exactly a food blog, per se. But you see, this is what I mean, our infiltration is quiet but powerful. Doesn't BlogHer deliver food & drink content featuring food blogs from across the world? Doesn't BlogHer host the most lucrative ad network for food blogs? Doesn't BlogHer host the oh-so-fun BlogHer Food conference. (We anxiously await word on the 2010 dates and location!) Ya see? We're tricky, we food bloggers. I heard that we even once got BlogHer founder Lisa Stone to -- get this -- bake muffins. See what I mean? Before you know it, she'll be blogging brownies, mark my word.

But wait! There's more evidence! You see, there are a half dozen blogs that for the moment, pretend to focus on another topic but soon, soon, will return to their natural roots, food.

BEST NOT FOOD BUT ...
Best Fashion Blog cupcakes and cashmere
Best Travel Blog Camels & Chocolate
Best European Blog Belgian Waffle
Best Latin American Blog 3Limes
Best Canadian Blog The Vegetable Assassin
Best Art, Craft, or Design Blog How About Orange?

Blog domination, can it be far behind? Look out bloggers, we'll be feeding you broccoli before you know it. And you will love it.

And you?
Is there further evidence that food blogs are succeeding in their blog-domination objectives? Cite the evidence in the comments. Whacko conspiracy theories are allowed, encouraged even.

Truth be told, a reader once told BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg to "stick to food" because "You're not that funny." So that's what she does, blogging at Kitchen Parade and A Veggie Venture.

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Greg Mills 5 pts

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southernspiceworld 5 pts

I think you hit the nail on the head!

Take me for example...I just recently started food blogging after stumbling on a variety of tantalising food blogs while searching for healthful recipes online. My husband and I are both trying to inculcate balanced diet traditions in the family as the kids are growing up.

I normally look at the many recipe journals that my mom and mother-in-law have passed on to me but these food blogs I am finding everyday are getting me out of my comfort zone of tried and tested recipes. So I try to create new foods that are "good  and good for you"...what can I say?!! I am trying to outdo the blogs I find.

I am enjoying it and needless to say...so is my family as they can't wait to get to the dinnertable and see what creation I am about to come up with next!!!

Meena

Always put your best self forward!

http://southernspiceworld.blogspot.com/

Kalyn Denny 5 pts

And since food bloggers have to PLAN, SHOP, COOK, PHOTOGRAPH, EDIT, AND CLEAN UP THE KITCHEN before they can even begin to blog, it's easy to see you have to be a bit of an over-achiever to fully embrace food blogging!

Kalyn Denny Kalyn's Kitchen ( http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com )

krysleigh 5 pts

Well, thanks for the shoutout, but you don't have to worry about me going to to dogs (or cupcakes either) anytime soon. Although I am a travel writer, and much of my work includes food and restaurant reviewing, I never write anything about food on my blog, strictly travel (with a side of celebrity). Uh, well, I didn't that is UNTIL TODAY when I posted TWO food shots from the Maldives, so you know maybe you're onto something before me even...heh... Way to make a liar out of me without my knowing it!

Camels & Chocolate

http://camelsandchocolate.com/

ChefToddMohr 5 pts

Food is the one thing that unites us all.

I'm glad there is so much independant interest in food blogging.

If you depend on the Food Network, you'll think food is all competition and crying.

Chef Todd Mohr

Learn to Cook Like a Chef at Home

http://www.WebCookingClasses.com

Anali 5 pts

We all have to eat! We might as well enjoy it.  And who better to spread the good word than food bloggers? ; )

Anali's First Amendment ( http://analisfirstamendment.blogspot.com/ )

Clamo88 5 pts

I love FoodBlogs and have had http://www.vickycooks.com on there for awhile now.  It certainly takes a lot to make your food blog stand out among the din.  There are indeed SO MANY good ones, and the internet is just saturated.  I knew this, but really didn't understand just how saturated until I started my own.  The thing is, though... they're ALL good !!!   It's not like other topics such as politics where you can just tell right away that someone doesn't know what they're talking about.  Almost every food blog I come across has at least one recipe worth bookmarking.  I have so many in my favorites, that Im' going to have to find a new way to make the ones I really really like stand out along with my own.  Maybe I'll have to put a rule in place that I don't bookmark a blog until I find two recipes I like or something.  I don't even really know.  What fun would that be, anyway. haha.  Anyway, reading about food is sure better than eating it all the time.  I thought being a foodie blogger would put weight on me, but it's done just the opposite.

Sierrak2 5 pts

Food is a unifier! No matter what we do for work or fun, if we have kids, if we're single, married or dating - we all stare into the open fridge (or take out menu) to decide "what we're in the mood for." Food is part of the everyday that doesn't need to be ordinary - and I think its fantastic that we're waking up to the possibilities!