Blog roll please . . .

Yes, yes, we know -- our blog roll up till now has been, well, kind of pathetic. Thank you to those bloggers who have taken us to task for it. You were right! So we at the L.A. Times Food section have put our heads together and compiled a much more comprehensive one. Certainly it just scratches the surface of the incredible wealth of terrific L.A.-centric food blogs. Blogs like the Delicious Life, spotlighting Sarah Gim's wonderful writing. Or Monster Munching, focusing with verve on dining and cooking in Orange County. Or Rameniac, where you'll want to go for all things ramen. (Did you know there are 22 popular ramen styles in Japan? Rameniac parses them all.)

It all starts with the beginning of our roll of L.A. food blogs (it's on the right rail; scroll down to find it). That's the place to find important must-check blogs such as Eater L.A., the Knife and more. Click on "More delicious links" and you'll find the rest of that list (we're still tweaking -- we're missing a couple of category headers), then L.A. food sites; more food blogs, such as Epi-blog (Epicurious' group blog), the Grinder (Chow's food media blog) and the Wednesday Chef. Then L.A. Food sites, including resources such as Yelp, Slow Food L.A. and the county Department of Public Health site for restaurant grades.

We hope our expanded links list will make it easy for you to find all things delicious in one spot. If we missed a blog or site you love or rely on, please let us know by posting a comment. We may be slow in getting it up (the L.A. Times has a very busy tech department!) but we'll do our best.

Whew!

-- Leslie Brenner

Comments

[Perd]

So nothing ever came of this did it.

[jane summer]

Well, it certainly seems to me like you've got a pretty good blog role going because I just spent the better part of the day blogging around and oh, by the way, forgot to pick the dog up from the vet!

[Marc]

The Ethicurean is a group blog with writers from the SF Bay Area, Ohio, Montreal, Seattle, and guest posters from around the world (I'm one of the Bay Area-based writers). It is dedicated to thinking about food, and "[n]ot just thinking about how to prepare it, or how it tastes — although those things are very important to us — but to pondering where and how it was grown and by whom, the distance that it traveled to our plate, and the less obvious effects of our consuming it." http://www.ethicurean.com/

Author of many "Bibles" Rose Levy Beranbaum has an interesting blog:
http://www.realbakingwithrose.com/

Harold McGee, author of "On Food and Cooking" has occasional posts at http://news.curiouscook.com/

For Thai food (blogged from Bangkok and elsewhere in Thailand), I like Real Thai: http://realthai.blogspot.com/

For writing and fabulous photography of the food of Malaysia, Indonesia, and elsewhere in SE Asia (and those who cook it), Eating Asia is one of my favorites: http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/

[Rachael]

One last blog...

Here, Eat This
http://kikimaraschino.blogspot.com/

okay, now I'll REALLY stop...

-Rachael

[Rachael]

Oh dear! I forgot Matt Bites!

http://www.mattbites.com/

AND Deep End Dining!
http://www.deependdining.com/

AND, the super-fab Acme Instant Food!
http://www.acmeinstantfood.blogspot.com/

Okay, I'll stop. :-)

-Rachael

[Rachael]

Well, since you asked...you should totally include Soul Fusion Kitchen...
http://soulfusionkitchen.blogspot.com/

And, The Town Tart
http://thetowntart.typepad.com/

Ooh, and Baking Bites
http://bakingsheet.blogspot.com/

And let's not forget Food Blogga
http://foodblogga.blogspot.com/

Then, there is TripleCreme
http://triplecreme.blogspot.com/

That's all I can think of that are currently posting...enjoy!

Whoops. Almost forgot my own...
Fresh Approach Cooking
www.freshcatering.blogspot.com

:-)

[Leslie Brenner]

Tana, we did include a link to Michael Ruhlman's blog -- you'll find it under "More Food Blogs."

[KT]

Yes thanks for the expanded blogroll!

I'll try not to be too sad that I'm apparently not good enough for the L.A. Times anymore, but the blogs listed are all well worth reading.

Erin of Erin's Kitchen now lives in New York, so it's not technically an LA food blog anymore, but still just as great a read.

[Tana]

What? No link to Michael Ruhlman's blog? After he let Russ Parson hold court (boldly and beautifully)?

http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2007/09/a-scolding-from.html

[Tableau Vivante]

Many thanks for the linkage! Though I'm more pleased with the new local focus. I was hoping there would be an eventual inclusion of more local blogs. Thanks for being open to the critique you received and responding appropriately.

-T. Vivante