Filed under: Dinner , Vegan , Grains , Vegetables , Nuts/seeds , Recipes , Baking , On the Blogs

Filed under: Coffee , Breakfast , Snacks , Business , On the Blogs , Bakeries In a similar vein to McDonald's Talk , there now exists Dunkin Donuts Talk , a blog about that most famous of American donut shops. The site was created by Dunkin' Donuts fan Scott Lewis , who claims to have no business affiliations with Dunkin' Donuts aside from his regular patronage. DDT appears to have been around since early April, and since then a scattering of posts have covered coffee taste tests, wifi at DD and new DD ad campaigns. Slashfood's Nicole Weston recently blogged about the possibility of Dunkin' Donuts becoming just Dunkin' as a way to show customers that they're more than just a donut shop. On a recent visit to the DunkinDonuts.com homepage, I found that there wasn't a donut in sight-just coffee and smoothies. Permalink     Email this     Linking Blogs     Comments

Filed under: West Coast , On the Blogs , Islands , America Last week we explored the San Diego food blogosphere , and tonight we head west and south to Hawaii!

Filed under: Food Porn , Pork , On the Blogs Tyler and Amanda love to eat and love to share their interest in all things edible through their blog, What We're Eating . As it turns out, they eat a lot of good stuff and take some really outstanding photos of all of it. They also present their posts in a very unusual (for a food blog) dialogue format that is a lot of fun to read. This is a picture of some Pork Tamales that they had down in Rosarito, Mexico. They declared the tamales to be the best they'd ever had - and judging by the picture, I don't doubt it. Of course, both Tyler and Amanda prefer other Mexican foods to tamales, so the tamales only got a 4.1/5 star rating. At least it wasn't the tamale's fault.

Filed under: Farming , Trends , On the Blogs , America There is a movement gaining popularity that concerns the way we eat. Some say that we should focus on organics, but this movement says that isn't quite enough. They think that people should eat locally produced and grown products . Exclusively, if possible. Some of the biggest proponents of this movement, the Locavores , are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Filed under: Magazines , On the Blogs The editor of Epicurious , Tanya Wenman, has been busily blogging away at the Epi-log for some time now. As of this week, the editors at Bon Appetit have launched their very own blog, as well. It's called the BA blog . Though there are only a handful of entries up at the moment - and none as immediately engrossing as the ones that SF Chronicle Editor Michael Bauer started out his blog with - it sounds as though they'll be blogging about "where they ate last night, what they cooked, what they drank, where they're traveling. In other words, all the stuff that really matters in [their] world." Sounds promising to me!

Filed under: Parties , Dessert , Food Porn , Raves & Reviews , On the Blogs When the menu for Bill Gates' dinner party with the Chinese President Hu Jintao was published, it sparked a lot of interest. Local ingredients, regional favorites, the overall low-key menu selection... etc.,  were all widely praised, but the vast majority of the interest in the menu was focused on dessert. The Seattle Times was inundated with requests for the recipe of the Rhubarb Brown Butter Almond Cake that was served at the dinner. Of course, they complied with reader requests and obtained the recipe from the chef. Just to make sure it was as good as it sounded, food blogger Molly, of Orangette , made a batch of mini cakelettes using the recipe. I can only imagine the taste, but if it's even half as good as it looks, this recipe makes one fantastic cake. The full recipe can be found here , and the cakelette recipe can be found at Orangette .

Filed under: West Coast , Restaurants , On the Blogs Michael Bauer, the San Francisco Chronicle's food and wine editor, as well as their restaurant critic, has just launched a blog, following in the footsteps of the New York Times' Frank Bruni and his blog . Bauer's blog is called Between Meals  and has been up and running for about 1 week now. So far, he has included a list of the ten noisiest restaurants in the Bay Area  (Town Hall and A16 are the worst offenders), following up on posts about the rising noise levels in eateries. The best part of the blog, though, is the FAQ , where Bauer answers reader-submitted questions about his life, the review process and about what makes him qualified to be a restaurant critic.

Filed under: West Coast , On the Blogs , Lists , America Surfing is big in California, but for me, I'll stick to surfing on the web. We have lots of good food blogs - cooking and recipes, restaurant coverage, and some that do a little of both - out of San Francisco and LA, but we can't forget about San Diego! There are quite a few food blogs based out of San Diego! Here's a list of several I've come across, but let us know if there are more.

Filed under: Snacks , East Coast , Food Porn , Food Oddities , On the Blogs , Eggs