Gastronome

Y’all probably know about this already, but hey, well-written and beautiful food photography!

http://scentofgreenbananas.blogspot.com/

Yesterday I was charmed when I was skimming Fancy Toast & read the most amusing food blog entry I’ve seen in some time: High Maintenance Gimlets. It’s not just that I love gimlets. Or cucumbers. (Though I do love both. I even like cucumbers in my cocktails.) The writing is excellent - and I keep coming back to that High/Low Maintenance vs. High/Low Quality matrix for another grin. As a solidly Quadrant III girl, I was compelled to mix up up a few of Erielle’s cocktails to accompany our movie last night. Amusingly, I didn’t read the comments until this morning - and sure enough Kip: I picked Hendrick’s off my shelf to accompany the cucumbers. I made a few other amendments to Erielle’s formula - I prefer my gimlets a bit more on the tart side, so I upped the lime, and dropped the sugar. So very tasty!

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A nice little snippet by Amanda Berne from the Chronicle on the current local popularity of beignets, and how and where to get ‘em in SF.

(I also noticed my friend Dabney is writing for the What’s New column as well - just had to give her a shout-out!)

It looks like there’s a publishing date out for the Julie/Julia project book. (September!)

Julie/Julia Project: the blog.
Our comments, long ago.
Props to Tom at Butterpig for the heads up.

If you read more than one or two food blogs, you probably noticed a pretty vase of white flowers followed by a menu, full of links. A group of food bloggers, led by Pim, put together a tasting menu in hopes of raising tsunami relief funds. Each blogger posted the menu and their recipe yesterday, and some information about why each of them hope you will take a little time out and donate a few dollars to UNICEF. If many readers click and give even a few dollars, the results could be staggaring.

Please go enjoy the menu. And if you can? Click through and give a little more today. There are a lot of folks who need your help. (Direct link to the donation site)

I love the SF Chronicle’s Rent-A-Grandma project. I posted a bit about the first two installments earlier. They’ve just updated with the lastest pairing. Go read! It’s charming and delicious.

A hearty congratulations out to the folks at Too Many Chefs on the Best Group Food Blog award. It’s well-deserved; I enjoy your writing tremendously!

(We’re still pretty tickled over here to have made finalist - thanks to everyone who got involved and voted!)

Two announcements:
One: Kate over at Accidental Hedonist is revealing the Food Blog Awards this week - a few a day. The voting turnout was pretty impressive - thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations especially to my neighbor Alder, who picked up “Best Food Blog - Wine, beer & other spirits” for Vinography.

Two: Kate, it looks like you were successful at raising awareness - I went to nominate some folks for Bloggies a few minutes ago, and noticed that they’ve added a category this year - for Best Food Blog. Awesome!