So hip it hurts!

Oh dear oh dear, I've been busy for a day or two and look what's happening in Blog Land. We are damn hip messieursdames, we are so hip it hurts.

It seems to me that everywhere we turn these days, a major paper or another is running a story on food blogs. In the past few weeks, our Pieman was spotted praising food blogs in Times Asia and the Guardian over in the UK. Roberto's Is My Blog Burning was cited in so many places that it seems on track to win Best Meme in the Bloggies. Amy made the front page at the Merc, and Clotilde has been showing her charmante self everywhere from Washington to Tennessee, even to SF.

Chez Pim is not doing too badly -if I may say so myself- beginning with a feature and recipe today on the hometown paper SF Chronicle with Alder, Sam, Derrick and others, plus a hop and skip autour du monde from way out East at the Star Bulletin in Honolulu, over the Pacific to La Prensa in Panama, up to Straight Magazine in Vancouver, and down again to The Post in Washington, then over and across the pond to the Guardian in London. And that's just this week alone! What fun!

Comments

[Ron Williams Jr]

Ekala mai iau (forgive me)

just noticed i typed Pin.....im gonna blame it on the after work grappa....aloha e Pim (: Ron

[Ron Williams Jr]

Aloha e Pin mai Hawaii Nei!! Just wanted to let you know, if you didnt, that your blog was mentioned in the Honolulu Star Bulletin yesterday. Front page of the food section.."Articulate and well-traveled San Franciscan tracks the food world from California to Thailand and France;" "Best for:The thinking gourmet"

Anyway, from a former San Franciscan now living on Maui...me ke aloha, Ron

[Josh]

Hey Pim,

Congratulations on the press! Great photo, too.

[Jack]

ABC. How to be a Millionaire. Zillionare.

[mindy]

awesome and congratulations!!!!!!!

[Amy]

It was a pleasure sharing recipe space in the Chron with you and Fatemah. Let's do it again!

[Elisah Barry]

Forgive me for asking, but were all these articles written by the same author? Seems awfully odd that the same bloggers were mentioned over and over when there are literally HUNDREDS of other bloggers out there.

I seem to detect a conspiracy here.

[Owen]

Well, I can let go some of the Pim's - good-looking - well I can delude myself that I am good-looking; intelligent - OK - I think I'm that too; great job with lots of travel - OK that's forgivable because I have kids and don't actually want to travel all the time for work - although some travel would be nice sometime!; great friends - OK I concede that it is all my own fault that I don't have great friends - if I were less grumpy then people might like me too; love eating - I can match you there; great writing - OK I can forgive even that; but what I can't forgive is that you get to eat at all these amazing places - THAT isn't fair! (goes off and sulks for a while)

More seriously - congratulations on the Chronicle story. She did a good job and the photographer did an even better job.

[Pim]

Hande,

Thanks for the compliment. Funny my therapist didn't think it's such a great idea to keep my collective of 4-5 personas. In fact she's quite insistent I get rid of some.

heh.
Pim, Pim, Pim, and Pim

[Hande]

Is this you? You look great. How can you look so good, be so intelligent, have a great (good paying) job, great friends, love eating, write so beautifully, etc, etc.... this is not fair. Are you sure there is only one of you or is this a collective of 4 or 5 people????