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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.















