In honour of the food focused issue of this week’s New Statesman, The Staggers has compiled a list of the top food blogs from around the world that offer restaurant recommendations, food reviews, cultural insight and, most importantly, recipes for more delicious dishes than you’ve ever seen.
And here they are, in no particular order, as chosen by us:
1. The World in 202 Meals
“Discovering London’s international cuisines, one meal at a time.” That’s that this blog is all about. This group of seven food lovers has made it their mission to find and eat a dish from every country recognized by international law in restaurants in the Greater London Area. They hope their “shamelessly tokenistic search provides amusement, restaurant tips, and lessons about London and beyond.”
2. How Sweet It Is
Jessica, has a passion for family, fitness, writing and food. This former personal trainer loves helping people reach their weight loss goals, but also loves cooking with bacon grease. While chocolate brings her joy, vegetables make her cry. Jessica says “living a healthy life should be fun, but most importantly delicious.”
3. Malaysia Food, Travel & Tourism Blog
This blogger is a self-proclaimed food hunter in his late 20s who loves food and photography. He likes to keep his blog simple, focused on the food and less narrative than other food blogs, partially because he hasn’t yet perfected his English. “My blogging style is based on how I would like to read a food blog – I just want to see how the foods look like, know the location, the price and most importantly the taste,” he says.
4. Delicious Days
“I eat merely to put food out of my mind.” That’s how Delicious Days’ blogger Nicky feels. She and her partner Oliver launched Delicious Days in 2005. Nicky says the blog is an outlet for her passions for “design and food, as well as craft tidbits about Munich, the wonderful Bavarian town we live in, our occasional travel experiences, cookbook reviews and, to cut to the chase, all things delicious.”
5. Home Cooking Rocks!
“Family meals have never been this tasty.” Connie Veneracion is a wife, mother, retired lawyer and newspaper columnist and magazine writer, but not a chef. HCR is about family meals, cooking tips and food trips. She learned to cook from her grandmother, grandfather and father, and she says her two daughters are her biggest food critics. “Cooking is an adventure, it’s been a wild ride so far,” Veneracion said.
6. David Lebovitz
“Living the sweet life in Paris.” David Lebovitz has been working with food since he was sixteen and has since won numerous awards as a chef and written six books. He began his blog in 2004 when he moved to Paris to create a place to share recipes and stories. “When I started the blog, I had little idea that blogging would take off like it did, and now my blog is one of the most fulfilling, exciting things that I do. I get to interact with readers from all over the world, sharing stories and recipes, and it’s been quite a learning experience,” Lebovitz said.
7. Orangette
Molly Wizenberg currently lives in Seattle, Washington, and began Orangette in 2004 after dropping out of a Ph.D. program in cultural anthropology. “I didn’t know what to do with myself,” said Wizenberg. “The only thing I knew was that, whatever I did, it had to involve food and writing.” Since starting the blog, she wrote a book, met her husband through the blog, and opened a restaurant with him.
8. Chocolate & Zucchini
Clotilde Dusoulier is a 31-year-old Parisian woman living in Montmartre with a passion for anything that has to do with food. “Here you’ll find recipe ideas and cooking inspiration, as well as musings on quirky ingredients, cookbook acquisitions, nifty tools, and restaurant experiences,” Dusoulier tells reader on C&Z. She began the blog in 2003 to rant about food, never imagining she would become a professional food writer.
9. Eating Asia
“Robyn has been living, cooking and eating in Asia- Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Vietnam and now Malaysia- for over 14 years,” according to her blog. Since leaving behind a dissertation on politics in China seven years ago, Eckhardt has made a name for herself in the food world as a freelance writer and photographer for several publications. Eating Asia is known for its vibrant photography that captures the essence of the street market food culture in Asia.
10. Cheese and Biscuits
Chris Pople is a market researcher from Battersea with a dedication to trying new restaurants and blogging about them. Pople started Cheese and Biscuits in 2007, and it has since become a place that many turn to for restaurant recommendations in London. It is currently ranked fourth on Urbanspoon’s London Blog Leaderboard.
11. Grab Your Fork
“Because life is one long buffet table.” Helen Yee is a professional writer from Sydney, Australia. She started Grab Your Fork in 2004 to tell the tales of her food filled journey through life in Sydney and abroad. “I am a food blogger. I take a camera with me to restaurants, I photograph my food before I eat it, and then I write about it online, in gluttonous, appetite- inducing detail,” Yee told Gourmet Rabbit. Yee feels Grab Your Fork provides a “happy intersection” for her passions of food, writing and photography. Her blog focuses on restaurants, but she also includes posts about food festivals, cooking classes, travel and recipes.
12. Baking Bites
Nicole Weston is a food writer and recipe developer living in Los Angeles, California. She began Baking Bites in 2004 as a place to share recipes, offer baking tips, report food news, and provide food reviews. “Baking Bites is a site for those who love cooking and baking, whether your preference is to whip up simple chocolate chip cookies, decorate fanciful cupcakes to slow-rising artisan breads,” Weston says on her blog.
13. Give Recipe
“Enjoy Turkish dishes”. Zerrin is a Turkish woman living in Eskişehir who works as a teacher when she isn’t blogging. Zerrin believes in the power of food and thinks there is a strong connection between people’s eating style and their characters. Give Recipe is an informative blog about Turkish cuisine. Zerrin enjoys sharing her recipes with other, something she feels is unique in her culture of competitive cooking women. “I feel happy when I cook something to my family and friends. It’s a pleasure of me to watch people with their smile on their face while eating,” Zerrin says on her blog.
14. My Columbian Recipes
“Columbian Food and International Flavours.” A Medellin, Columbia native, Erica, now lives in the northeastern US with her family. Erica loves everything about cooking shows, recipe books, and getting in the kitchen herself. She created the blog in 2009 as a tribute to her grandmother, whom she never saw cooking from a recipe. “My hope is that people from other countries discover Colombian food and learn more about our culture and traditions,” said Erica. “Cooking traditional Colombian food connects me to my culture and allows me to share my heritage with my American family.”
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