la.foodblogging

Here’s a fun toy for your Sunday: Wordle. I love words as art, here’s la.foodblogging run through Wordle:

I think I am going to have to do a version for our header image.

After a couple of weeks of nesting with our new son, we hit the gates running on dining out. I took a chunk of time off of work to do some bonding and help out as my wife recovered and did feedings at what seemed like every five minutes, little guy can eat!
As predicted, our [...]

I am working on an article for this site about the rising price of food, coupled with a decline in consumer spending; how is it (if at all) affecting businesses. I am looking for some input from local chefs and restaurateurs. If you are interested in answering a few questions and giving your take on [...]

It’s no secret that I have had some harsh words about PR requests in the past.
This morning I got an excellent example of a great PR request. This was a request to post events on my Digesty.com foodblog aggregator. Here is the email (reprinted with permission):
Hello,
Esotouric offers offbeat LA bus tours that sometimes include unique
food [...]

Usually it is my wife who gives the somewhat regular reports on what is in season at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. One of the many benefits of my being on family leave is that now I get to accompany her on the market trips.
It’s a turning point at the market, summer fruits are [...]

It must be a sickness. After updating the look of la.foodblogging, I have been working on an update to the Digesty family of sites.
Here is a preview look at the new design:
Digesty Los Angeles
I worked hard to accomplish some very basic goals with this design. I wanted to focus on a few features.

The [...]

Just over three years ago we had our first post. Since then we have had a bevy of contributors who have donated their time and efforts to bring a constant stream of restaurant reviews, discoveries and tips to our fantastic readers.
We are nearing our 1,000th post, which should happen sometime in late May. Over [...]

Because I don’t have enough to keep me busy these days, I’m launching a redesign of la.foodblogging, and we have also moved servers!
We have been hosted at MediaTemple for a while now. They are a decent host, but the limitations they put on their gridserver accounts are confusing and their support response times were pretty [...]