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02/24/2006 Entry: "Food and Wine"

Food and Wine
I'm also reminded of the recent Food and Wine issue. In it, a short essay by Pete Wells entitled "In the Belly of the Blog" drew some wrath from food bloggers.
Wells' crime? He wrote about the tendency of some food blogs to focus on the metaphoric "cheese sandwich" (i.e. what I ate today).

Wells seemed to mean that some food blogs do different things with the medium (for that, he finds them interesting); some don't (for that, he doesn't find them interesting). And he then offered some of the interesting examples; each does something with blogging differently than the other. To make that point, there is context, and there are examples.

It seems the article - and cheese sandwich metaphor - has driven the food bloggers into a frenzy. Somehow, this distinction was read as a "declaration of war" by some food bloggers. Protests. Nasty comments. Cheese sandwich day! has been issued as a call in the hopes of uniting the masses.

The cliché of community.

Now - what would a "serious" day look like? That would be a cool response. "We're serious and we're proud!"