Food Blog

After being credited with starting all of this hullabaloo, I’m a little late with my own cheese sandwich.

To summarize: Another reporter wacks out a piece on how food blogs aren’t worth reading since they’re all about what people had for lunch, he spends 2 minutes to find 5 exceptions, lots of food bloggers stand up to defend themselves, a forum moderator shuts a thread down because the reporter’s feelings might be hurt, and lots of cheese sandwiches are made.

While I doubt we’d hurt his feeling or put a indelible mark on his career, we will make damn sure he never disparages another cheese sandwich again.

Havarti and Cornish Game Hen on Rustic Sourdough. For lunch.

Sounds like I planned it? Not really, it’s just a coincidence that I had all these elements on hand when the controversy happened.

We got a bread maker, so this particular sandwich was special since it was the first loaf out of it. The bread is a good rustic french loaf, made with a little sourdough starter added. The cheese is havarti and the filling is from leftover cornish game hen. It was griddled in a cast iron pan with some butter. A good cheese sandwich has that great mix of crunchy bread and gooey cheese, mine has the added meatiness of the game hen.

I’ll post more on the bread machine and what’s coming out of it, since it’s going to good use.

I have an urge to go on and on about Pete Wells’ article, and I’ve been trying to make my points concise, without success. So I’ll summarize here and get back to it if I feel it warrants my time. The article wasn’t that bad, but my gripe with him is if he could only find 5 or 6 blogs that made him say ‘wow, he didn’t do his homework. He also ignored the real trend of the increasing quality as well as the quantity of food blogs, and he completely wrote off all food blogs as worthless for resources on local food, excepting 2 in NY. And why does every slapped together article on blogging always complain that we don’t have editors? And why, in 2006, is the media still afraid of inline links in online versions of their articles when the whole point of such an article is to point us to websites?

OK, I’ll stop. Now go read more opinions and see lots more cheese sandwiches.