Have you seen it yet? Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie covered food
blogging and bloggers this week. Perhaps you're here because of the
show, in which case, welcome. Besides me, the show also featured Mark of Sticky Rice in Hanoi, Josh of Cha Xiu Bao in Hong Kong,
and my dear friend David Lebovitz in Paris.
I must say I wasn't so sure how it would all turn out. I had fun filming
the show, but frankly it's my first time doing something like this, and
I was more than a bit nervous. It, happily, turned out great. As
Louisa said, my crew was fantastic and everything went smoothly despite
the newbie me.
I love that the show portrayed us food bloggers as passionate food
lovers who have a story to tell, rather than a gang of snarky,
vindictive, camera-toting weirdos hell bent on messing up the
livelihood of honest, hard-working restaurateurs. Of course we don't
always have good stories to tell, to be a foodie is to have a
discriminating taste, after all. What some of the blog critics
have often forgotten, and my friend David Lebovitz stated quite
eloquently on the show, we write from a personal point of view. We
tell our stories, talking about our experience with a meal, a recipe,
or our sometimes exciting and sometimes mundane lives.
Blogging is about sharing, and it proves to be interesting to hundred
of thousand of readers each day, not on my blog alone but the entire
food blogosphere. We love food and we love sharing it, and through the
blogs you can go scouring the "gutters" of Vietnam with Mark on a search for the ultimate bowl of Pho, or follow Josh on his quest to eat a diseased crab, a delicacy of sort in the summer months of Hong Kong, and eat your heart out in the sweet city of Paris with my even sweeter friend David.
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