Food blog
Food blogs are blogs about food, recipes, nutrition, the restaurant industry, and similar related topics.
Definition
At its basic definition, a food blog is a blog about food. Food bloggers range from home cooks to critics, to well-known entertainers in the food business. Food blogs typically provide information about how to prepare food, and those are commonly called recipe blogs. Food blogs can also be highly lucrative for bloggers, as networks exist to provide food bloggers with the opportunity to display advertising in exchange for compensation from companies in the food industry.[1]
Rise of Food Blogs
There is no way to really determine when the first food blog was ever created, so it's difficult to determine a starting point. As blogging, in general, became more popular, so did food blogging.[2] According to an article written in 2006 by Pete Wells, then a contributing editor to Food & Wine, "almost no one blogged about food" in 2001.[3]
Currently, there are 11439 food blogs listed in the Food directory on Technorati, effectively making food one of the most prolific blogging topics.[4]
Notable Food Bloggers
One of the most notable food bloggers is blogger-turned-writer Julie Powell, who wrote the book Julie & Julia which was later turned into a major motion picture. Powell wrote the book based on her experience blogging her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Powell did not start out as a food blogger in the sense of the word today, as her blog was not about food. She became a food blogger for a very specific period of time, starting in 2002, when she launched the Julie/Julia project with the goal of writing about cooking her way through every recipe in that book.[5]
References
- ↑ Kaye, Kate. "Buick, Buitoni, and Others Embrace Social Media Branding on Food Sites" clickz.com, August 26, 2010. Accessed September 5, 2010.
- ↑ Hopkins, Kate. "Food blogs, unplugged Where did they all come from?" culinate.com, January 24, 2007. Accessed September 5, 2010.
- ↑ "In the Belly of the Blog" foodandwine.com, March 2006. Accessed September 5, 2010.
- ↑ Food Blogs - Technorati Food Blogs - Technorati Accessed September 5, 2010.
- ↑ Powell, Julie. "The Julie/Julia Project" August 25, 2002. Accessed September 5, 2010.
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