Blogs From Pros

Michael Ruhlman recently shared some of his favorite Chefs Who Blog.  It seems that some of your  favorite chefs are a little annoyed by the blogosphere, but many professional chefs have embraced blogging as an extension of their art form:

I’ve wanted to put a list of chef blogs in the right column of this page for ages but a number of posts and articles about chefs who write have forced me off the couch.  Mario and other chefs have decried blogs, viewed them with scorn at best (mainly chefs who own restaurants maligned by bloggers or commenters, often anonymously, a practice I find pathetic and regrettable and I hope short-lived). It’s an understandable response to this new anarchy.  But what about chefs themselves who’ve embraced this new medium, whether by blogging or by reading and responding to blogs?…… ….I’d love to have a comprehensive list—so if you’re a professional cook who has a blog, feel free to let me know and mention your blog in a comment.  One of the most rewarding things I’ve done has been to chronicle the life of the chef, generally, to hang out in the kitchen and return with story.  Now the chefs have a vehicle to tell their own stories, to indulge their own obsessions and, importantly, to teach. “I really believe a blog is for us and can be for many chefs an instrumental tool in the kitchen and outside,” Alex wrote in an email.  “Even if nobody but the chef himself looks at what is written/photographed it, takes you a step back and helps you analyze food, ingredients, approach, aesthetics, etc.” Chefs are becoming better understood for what they do rather than for empty celebrity, and blogs accelerate the process.  It’s a good thing that chefs who want to write can now spread their ideas more easily and generously than they do their food.

Ruhlman shares a number of his favorite Chef Blogs such as those from chefs Michael Symon, Matthew Tivy and Shuna Fish.  Read more of his favorites.