I’m pleased to introduce a new food and wine blog to the web. My dining companion has started writing about the restaurants we visit, the wines we drink, the products we love, and her experiences as devotee of the good life in Montreal. I look forward to her lessons in leisure, and invite you all to follow along.
I’ve added her new site to the blogroll, along with a few other food sites I’ve been reading. I’m loving Carol’s The French Laundry at Home. She’s cooking her way through Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry Cookbook. When I complain about convoluted and arduous recipes in The Book, I just think of poor Carol.
I get a real kick out of gamecakes‘ pictures of video-game themed confections. High-tech gadgets are designed to look edible, and this takes it to the logical conclusion.
I’ve only recently tuned in to two of the bigger group authored food blogs on the web, Slashfood and Serious Eats. They’ve earned their reputations and then some.
So, what else should I be following along with? I’m always interested in great food blogs, particularly people doing similar projects to mine. If there’s something I should check out, by all means let me know in the comments.
And now for a minor update on the state of The Project. The most recent recipe posted was #113. This summer I challenged myself to write 60 posts in 60 days, and get #113 posted by September 14th. I failed miserably in that challenge, my two month project took three-and-a-half. I’ve been pretty good about keeping a steady ground-eating pace to my write-ups though. I’m catching up on my backlog, and I’m happy to say I’m only 32 recipes behind. The day that I have to go to the kitchen and cook something before I can write my next review is within sight.
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Although it is very good that you are reducing the backlog, this means that the current calculated pace is artificially high; and hence the actual completion date will be beyond 2014. Unless, of course, you step up your cooking to the 3-4 recipes per week that you’re currently blogging…
You’re saying that because I’m going through the backlog slightly faster than I’m cooking things it will actually take longer to finish because cooking will become the rate limiting step. However, I’ve been putting off some of the cooking to focus on the writing, once we attain equilibrium it’ll be easy to step up the cooking to match pace.
The calculated average is actually artificially low because of the month I was away and unable to blog at all. Not to say that that couldn’t happen again, but I’m fairly sure that all of this will come out in the wash over the next seven years.
Ah, I didn’t realize that there was a tradeoff between blogging and cooking. I’m not trying to discourage you, by the way… I’m looking forward to the next 7 years.