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Okay 10pm Tuesday 31st feb one more: Food for thought. I’ve updated the figures.
Here is my February update, all from melbourne so far. the apprentice patissier, eat.drink.write., We do chew our food. That means I’ve identified 53 local bloggers, 24 coming from Melbourne.
Any omissions let me know in comments.
Okay, Melbourne is now officially the capital of Australian food blogs with another three finds: Confessions of a Food Nazi , Just Heavenly and No Eggs or Nuts. I’ve added two Perth blogs to the original list. There is the newly launched WA-based Spice Magazine and Abstract Gourmet.
We have a new Melbourne food blogger in Australia, Chocolate-Chip Kimbie. Apparently Kimbie spends most of her time in Melbourne and the remainder in Hong Kong discovering restaurants in both cities. She’s been blogging since early November after following Food Porn Watch for a while.
That makes, incuding Tomato, 20 regular (more or less) food bloggers in Melbourne.
This is what I think is a definaitive (can’t spell) list as you’ll findon of local and expat Aussie Food Bloggers. Winos and NZers to come at a later date.
There are 51 local food blogs, probably about 46 dedicated to the subject. They are split: Melbourne 20, Sydney 18, Brisbane 4, WA 6 ACT 2 Cowra 1. There are 5 expat bloggers.
3 local food blogs seem to be abandoned.
Any additions/mistakes, please let me know.
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ACT2
Meals at our place and other culinary adventures
The J’s
Brisbane 4
Exclusively Food
Kitchen on Clarendon
The Occasional Epicure
Not Just Desserts
Cowra 1
Filling Good
Melbourne 24
A Few of my Favourite Things
Cat on the Bench
Confessions of a Food Nazi
Epitome of a Gin & Gym Posse
Chocolate-Chip Kimbie
eat.drink.write.
Food for thought
Electric Serendipity
Esurientes
Foodie TV
For the fork and the spoon
Just Heavenly
Kaicooks
Lychee Rose & Peaches
My Favourite Plum
No Eggs or Nuts
Sarah Cooks
Sarah discovers how to eat
the apprentice patissier
The Breakfast Blog
Tomato
Vicious Ange
What I Cooked Last Night
We do chew our food
Perth 6
Abstract Gourmet
Chubby Cat Cooks
Cook and Eat: Attempts of a Pseudo Chef
Spiceblog
Spice Magazine
An electronic restaurant
Sydney 18
Aficionado
Australian Gourmet Pages
Benjamin Christie
Chocolate Suze
Cucina Rebecca
Eat Stuff
Grab your Fork
Miruki
Noodlebowl
Pinkcocoa Tabetai
Raging Yoghurt
Sahimimimi
Sydney Food Diary
The Food Palate
Tian & Mark
Taott!
Vic Cherikoff
Waffle
Expat 5
Osaka
Nihon no Ryori
London
Banana Tikka Masala
Canada
Crash Test Kitchen
Café Geek
NZ
Winos& Foodies
Dormant/deceased 3
Husky9’s Kitchen
Food what I ate
My Restaurant Rules
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Thanks for the list Ed. There are a few there I have yet to read.
Cool. I think we need this to promote the extent of food (& wine when I get around to it) blogging down here. We’re part of the global thing but need to communicate locally.
Heya Ed,
Thanks for the list. There’s another one of us in Perth and the link is http://abstractgourmet.com
Thanks Jean. Keep em coming. I remember when I first started I thought there was only 20 or so of us locally.
Mate, i had no idea you had this list going… Only come across it via my access logs… Leave a note on my site (or whoever you’re linking up) so I can link back…
Cheers,
Matt
Nice, extensive list!
Paz
You’re lucky to have so many bloggers networking with each other. I just discovered one other food blogger in Salt Lake and we had a great time having dinner together.
Thanks. Paz.
Kalyn, four of us met recently in melbourne which is great. I bet if you dig hard enough you’ll find more in Salt Lake. I thought there were only a couple of us in Melbourne at first.
Thanks for that ED, I’ll have to set up a link for the definitive list.
Tha spice mag site is still being developed and I’m still having deep thoughts about whether it’s strictly a blog given it’s an arm of a commercial enterprise. Maybe I think too much. Or too slowly.
Anthony: Enjoyed Spicemag, copies finalally arrived in Vic. The site looks like a blog and I reckon a comemril enterprise can still be counted as a blog. I sort of had to tackle the issue of what is a blog for this list and the story for that glossy mag. Two of the ones listed arne’t strictly blogs, more websites but are grass roots writing about food. I’ve been following the Smartyhost debate with interest and rather than all the technology stuff I wonder if blogging is juust really about grass roots writing or journalism and communities rather than something defined by a certain format. There again the push technology and comments are important to make the community work. Sorry it took so long for your comment to appear - somehow my junk filter got you.
Ah the filters are on to me.
It’s an interesting issue. I think the biggest fear is if a grassroots medium gets crowded out by corporate templaes and promotion. It goes to the heart of a lot of issues in food journalism too. When does it shift from recipe to infomercial. Anyway not complaining about it being included at all, I hope it grows up to become a useful resource but feel free to boot me off if I start going on about “and from my good friends at…”
: )
Great to hear you enjoyed the mag, they’ve done well.
Good work Ed. I will have to find some time to survey the list in more detail.
I’m off for a week in Adelaide (via wine country) over the Xmas break, so I am hoping to add some SA breakfast reviews.
I noticed that there are no SA food bloggers on the list. I wonder if there are any hiding out there? I need to ask them where to find the best eggs.
Cheers,
Jamie
And another one from Melbourne - I found my love of food was getting in the way of writing about politics so I started a foodblog about (mainly) healthy food. As I have been accused of being a food nazi before, the name was a given.
Can you add me to your hopefully ever growing list. Thanks.
Cheers Jamie. Hope you enjoy SA. I’ve done some searches and I have to say I am surprised nobody has emerged from there.Let ius know what you find. Personally, I’m blogging Surfers Paradise and hope I can find Australia’s most vulgar meal!
Thanks Food Nazi. That’s 20 of us in Melbourne alone. Keep ‘em coming!
Anthony, don’t worry I’ll personally dig into you if you start thanking the sponsors. I know where you’re coming from though. Sorry, my spam filter again. It told me this: 202.72.148.102 found on service bsb.spamlookup.net. For some reason I can’t get my aithentication working but I’ll try.
Nice job on the list
I really think I need to update my links now I have moved……
Cool. Re comments about blogging and commercial zine type sites. I think there is a space for both. A lot of companies are exploring the blog sphere as a way to reclaim audience. Interesting times ahead.
Hi Clare, sorted the new address. Hope Kiri turns up soon.
You are right Sue. I think the interesting thing is the connection blogs create with an audience rather than just talking at it. We shall see and I have something exciting for all food bloggers in the new year.
hi,
i’m from Just Heavenly, but we’re not from Melbourne. We’re from Malaysia =)
Hi Swee. Arn’t you students at Monash in Melbourne?
Excellent list - add another notch into the Melbourne-based blogs: http://www.eatdrinkwrite.com/ - still in embryonic stage …
Hi Ed, one more for the Melbourne list, “food for thought” has been up since late last year,
Cheers
Cheers tankeduptaco. I’ve listd you. I’m also in St Kilda!
Hi Ed, Found another Melb. blog over at paper chef # 15. the title is, “Cook (almost) Anything at least once.” She is an entrant, so all her details are there.
Cheers
A new blogger, linked to a recently set-up newsgroup under the aus. hierarchy, because Google won’t archive us as yet
http://aus-food.blogspot.com
It is a community blogger, so although set up by a Melbournian ( me ), contributers can be as far-flung as they like
Cheers !
Perhaps move crashtestkitchen to London?
Thanks for this wonderful service!
You’re missing quite a few Perth food bloggers. Although I can’t remember some of them now.
One is The Food Pornographer at http://www.thefoodpornographer.com
and also
The Wandering Gourmet - kind of - it’s a club based in Perth. But as you can see we mainly blog about food. See http://wanderinggourmet.wordpress.com
Just to update my record here
We’re now found at http://wanderinggourmet.net 
http://whatisfordinnertonight.blogspot.com/
And one more! Just started this one up, from melbourne, have been stalking the Australian blogs for a while and thought I would start my own, so i remember the recipes i like and the ones I dont!
You all dont update your blogs often enough! I need daily inspiration for food ideas…
I’ll do a full update soon I hope but there’s 80 food ones in Melbourne alone. Then there’s wine and… HELP!
You can add http://thestonesoup.com to the list of Sydney food blogs. I’ve been reading for a while now, the tastiest post is the beetroot pesto - recommend it to be served with avocado and cheese on toasted miller sourdough from Bourke St Bakery. Great food photography too!
Is there a newer version of this list? Surely there would have to be some South Australian food blogs by now. In a fit of shameless self-promotion, let me throw my hat into the SA ring with the Second Pancake.
There are two or three now is SA. but there are 200 or so in Australia and it’s become a handful to keep up - hence no update for a few years. i may try if I get a chance.