la.foodblogging

Far be it for me to tell the LA Times how to run their paper, but looking at today’s innocuous article about food blogging, I thought I would drop some unsolicited advice.

Let’s look at what the LA Times suggests, versus what I suggest:

They Say: The Accidental Hedonist from a former aspiring stand-up comic.
I say: The Delicious Life from a former office worker.

They Say: I Was Just Really Very Hungry from a Japanese-born food lover in Switzerland
I say: Best of LA from a local born food lover in Los Angeles

They Say: Slice NY As in a list of places to get pizza in New York?
I say: Low End Theory’s LA Restaurants As in a list of places to get any kind of food in Los Angeles.

They Say: White Trash BBQ, a Brooklynite on the BBQ competition circuit.
I say: BBQ Junkie a Los Angelino on the hunt for delicious BBQ.

They Say: Burrito Eater reviews of San Francisco taquerias
I say: The Great Taco Hunt reviews of Los Angeles taquerias and taco trucks.

They Say: Deep End Dining, close encounters with Southern California’s most challenging dishes.
I say: They’re right

They Say: Balmy Duck reviews boxed cake mixes.
I say: Gross, get good cooking advice from Erin’s Kitchen.

They Say: Nothing about la.foodblogging
I say: Throw us a bone!

Edit I should note that I have nothing against the blogs linked in the LA Times article. In fact, many of them are quite good. I am suspicious of the LA Times though and their inability to root out local food blogs for their local readers. Perhaps that’s not their goal…

By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.