Culinary blogs without bordersBy Georges RouzeauThe passion for cooking transcends borders. From Singapore to New York, female bloggers vie with each other in their love of gourmet food and inventiveness. Here is a selection of some of the best culinary blogs on the Web. Born in the United States, blogs, and especially their culinary version, appear among the most popular forms of expression on the Web. Eating with pleasure is indeed a universal desire fed by multiple experiences. These female bloggers share a certain number of common points. Crazy about cooking and new technologies, they spend as much time in their kitchen as on the Internet looking for new ideas, recipes or products. All are on the look-out for exchanges, contacts, meetings and friendship. They are often globetrotters or expatriates whose blog is a means of relating their daily life in a foreign country. Trips to meet another female blogger are frequent. Some of them make gastronomy the reason for travel like Melissa Kronenthal with Traveler's Lunchbox. Contributions therefore come from Singapore and Copenhagen, Vienna and Rome, San Francisco and New York, and Manilla and Pune (India). All types of cuisine are represented in an intelligent and joyous ode to fusion cooking. The visual beauty of these sites is often extraordinary. Treat your eyes before your tastebuds! There are a plethora of lavish photographs on dishes and you'll also see views of cities reputed for their good cuisine, and of markets and their products. You'll take almost as much pleasure in reading these pages as in leafing through a coffee table book... Part cook book and part tourist guide, part personal diary and part culinary investigation, these blogs and their posts reflect a hedonistic and inquisitive lifestyle. Here is a selection of the most interesting culinary blogs, mostly written in English.  The 'Guglhupf' © Angelika Apfelthaler The Flying AppleThis is the star of Austrian culinary blogs. A producer of documentaries, Angelika Apfelthaler lives in Vienna but has made her blog an ode to Italy, her second homeland. It is also a genuine personal diary where each line bears hope (her husband suffers from Parkinson's disease).  Marinaded anchovies served on Crostini © Nicole Stich and Oliver Seidel Delicious DaysNicole Stich and Oliver Seidel, a German couple in Munich, also appear among the stars of this literary genre. Their blog site, regularly nominated among the most creative with its elegant design enhanced by hundreds of marvellous pictures, was launched in 2005. This blog mixes all their passions: gastronomy and food products, but also their home city Munich and travel accounts.  Aunt Amélie's Smooth Chocolate Cake © Clotilde Dusoulier Chocolate & ZucchiniClotilde Dusoulier, a 27 year old Parisian who lives in Montmartre, shares her time-consuming passion for everything related to food - recipes, restaurant experiences, cook books, products, etc. This blog was created in September 2003, directly in English at a time when French culinary blogs were rare or non-existent. Clotilde Dusoulier had just spent two years in San Francisco where her passion for cuisine blossomed. The press took an interest in her and she began by writing a few articles on both sides of the Atlantic before becoming a full-time gastronomic author. The title of her blog sounds like a metaphor for everything she likes: fresh and artisanal products, if possible organic, and all sweet delicacies, especially 'glorious chocolate'. Her recipe book, 'Chocolate & Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen' will be published in the United Kingdom and in the United States on 15 May this year.  Fresh fig and goat cheese clafoutis © Melissa Kronenthal The Traveler's LunchboxThe Traveler's Lunchbox is coordinated and illustrated by Melissa Kronenthal, a 29 year old American living in Edinburgh after having resided in Ireland, Spain and Bulgaria. Her curiosity is only equalled by her diligence in working and writing (her posts are extremely abundant to say the least). Blog appetiteA directory of Anglosaxon culinary blogs put together by a man from Brussels, Laurent Goffin, himself author of a blog (www.epicurien.be, which pays homage to Belgian products and recipes). Other addressesCavoletto di Bruxelles (in Italian and in French) A resident in Rome, the Belgian Sigrid Henrika Vebert interprets the best Italian recipes. Fiordizucca (in Italian and in English) La Tartine gourmande (in English and in French) By a French lady living in Boston. Nordljus (in English) By a Japanese lady living in the United Kingdom Chubby Hubby (in English) By a couple from Singapore. |
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