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2012 Best Food Blog Awards: The Winners

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This year, the third of the SAVEUR Best Food Blog Awards, as we sorted through nearly 40,000 nominations for blogs, videos, and websites, we found proof again and again that food blogs are a force to be reckoned with. In their infinite variety and extraordinary depth, they're a vital part of not only the internet, but of food journalism overall. It was a hard task to narrow down the entries into 6 finalists for each category, and we can only imagine how much harder it must be to choose just one winner from each group — thankfully, that job was left to you, with the winner in each category receiving a majority of user votes. 

Congratulations to all of our talented, intelligent, hardworking finalists, and our warmest thanks to everyone who nominated blogs, voted for them, or takes the time to visit them. Here are your 2012 Best Food Blog Award winners! 


Best Cooking Blog

WINNER: Lottie + Doof

FINALISTS
Cookie and Kate
palate/pallette/plate
Seven Spoons
Big Girls, Small Kitchen
The Year in Food


Best Baking & Desserts Blog

WINNER: Butter Me Up Brooklyn

FINALISTS
Chasing Delicious
Joe Pastry
Willow Bird Baking
Sprinkle Bakes
Poires au Chocolat


Best Single Recipe, Sweet Or Savory

WINNER: Joy the Baker: Double-Battered Apple Doughnuts

FINALISTS
Kiran Tarun: Paneer Tikka Pizza
Luxiare: Crispy Penne
Eat Make Read: Zucchinitini
Food in Jars: Quince in Spiced Chai Syrup
Lucillian Delights: Polenta Tart with Lime


Best Food Photography

WINNER: Gastrofotonomia

FINALISTS
La Buena Vida
Pratos e Travessas
Not Without Salt
Seven Spoons
Sunday Suppers


Best Single Food Photo

WINNER: What Katie Ate: Pearl Barley and Puy Lentil Salad

FINALISTS
Seattle Food Geek: Pickled Tomatoes
Licking the Plate: Blood Orange Rind
Pratos e Travessas: Purple Garlic
Call Me Cupcake: Birthday Cakes
Orangette: Morning Biscuits


Best Single Food Video

WINNER: Kitchen Vignettes: Baba Au Rhum

FINALISTS
Rick Mereki: EAT
Leaf: Avocado, Shrimp & Endive Salad
Tiger In A Jar: Mulled Apple Cider
The Kitchy Kitchen: S'Meaches
The Perennial Plate: Mississippi Hand Grabbing


Best Wine or Beer Blog

WINNER: Pete Drinks

FINALISTS
Wine Diarist
Dr. Vino
Good Wine Under $20
Vinography
Cruisin' for a Brewsin'


Best Cocktail Blog

WINNER: This Girl Walks Into a Bar

FINALISTS
There Will Be Bourbon
12 Bottle Bar
The Five O'Clock Cocktail Blog
Alcademics
Jeffrey Morgenthaler


Best Culinary Travel Blog

WINNER: Istanbul Eats

FINALISTS
Trail of Crumbs
The Mija Chronicles
Eatori
New World Review
Paris by Mouth


Best Regional Cuisine Blog

WINNER: She Simmers

FINALISTS
Hungry Sofia
Muy Bueno Cookbook
Taste of Beirut
Jun-Blog
Farmette


Best Piece of Culinary Writing

WINNER: Cafe Fernando: My Chez Panisse Experience

FINALISTS
Food Woolf: Service 101: Help Me Help You
Nostrovia: Moonshine Maker
The Farmer General: On the Subject of Cookies
Kitchen Insurgency: Looking for Laundry with Llamas
The Spinning Plate: On Being Satisfied


Best Food Humor Blog

WINNER: Bon Appétempt

FINALISTS
Food Junk
Anger Burger
The Food in my Beard
My Drunk Kitchen
Fancy Fast Food


Best Special Diets Blog

WINNER: Nom nom paleo

FINALISTS
Roost
Pure
My Darling Lemon Thyme
Tartelette
Sodium Girl


Best Restaurant/Dining Coverage

WINNER: Tiny Urban Kitchen

FINALISTS
Snap Food
Kevin Eats
The Ulterior Epicure
Judging Your Breakfast
Paris Patisseries


Best Group Blog

WINNER: Honest Cooking

FINALISTS
Punk Domestics
Culinate
Nona Brooklyn
Muy Bueno
Acqtaste


Best Celebrity Food Blog

WINNER: David Lebovitz

FINALISTS
Aida Mollenkamp
Gwyneth Paltrow/GOOP
Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman
Anthony Bourdain
Dorie Greenspan
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The appearance of The Pioneer Charlatan, aka Ree Drummond, strips away any credibility this survey may have had.

She's a fraud, pure and simple.
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The link to Pete Drinks takes you to the 2011 archive rather than the home page/ latest content. Is it possible to change this?
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I hope we get here one day :) oh the fun!
I am delighted beyond belief that the fabulous Nom Nom Paleo won her 'Best Special Diets' category. Paleo food can be crazy-delicious in addition to being healthy, and I hope this introduces a whole new world of people to the tastiness of paleo.
Congrats to all the nominees/winners. Definitely some great stuff!

Very surprised not to see "Front Row Eats" get nominated though. Possible snub in the Best Restaurant/Dining Coverage category?

See for yourself at http://www.frontroweats.com

Thanks!
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Kavey, the content being judged is all from 2011, hence why the link takes you to archived content.
Congrats to all..............

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congratulation!

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Congratulations to all!
Hope we can make it to the list next year :)
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Congratulations to all the winners! I just have to comment that I missed seeing MY favorite blog on the list of winners this year...
http://www.janessweets.blogspot.com/
She is SO entertaining and her recipes come out perfect every time due to her diligence in testing & reworking each entry. This is the blog I turn to on an almost daily basis & I look to her recommendations for other blogs to follow, cookbooks to purchase, and products to try. I hope the editors will give her a look next year :)
Hey our blog even got best food blog award for 2012 !
You can visit our blog here : http://www.kukuchku.com
Award Winning Recipe :
http://www.kukuchku.com/california-lemonade-smirnoff-vodka-coktail-recipes.html
Happy for Best Special Diets Blog And David Lebovitz Best Celebrity Food Blog! Good Luck for You!

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Congrats to all the winners.

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What a very informative site, I have found alot of very useful information here and still have a lot more

to read. Thank you very much for the time and effort you have put in….
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You made some good points there.
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Hi! I absolutely love this site. I noticed that Luxirare is spelled wrong, and I am one of those annoying people correcting you!

Thank you for the winner List - I absolutely look forward to this every year.

xo,
thehungryfab
Who can help me? Where do I enter for the blog of the year 2013?
Love to enter my blog: www.worldsbestfoodblog.com

Tell me where to go please...
Hi all,

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Thank you.

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I love cooking blogs. The best cooking blog is John Contrati's, "Cooking With Mr. C. It's a mixture of food and celebrity. Very cool.

www.cookingwithmrc.tumblr.com
hi, i would like no nominate my food blog for the 2013 food blog awards

http://makesushi.org

thank you for your consideration
in my last comment i made a spelling mistake where it says "no" substitute with "to"
Hi,

I love cooking & cooking blog also,
I am a onwer of a restaurant/take away named tandoori Flames, best indian restaurant in Melbourne.
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Thank you
Hi everybody,

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Esta dieta es espectacular!

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Desserts and diet:

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really like the list mentioned here, thanks for sharing them.

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The Chopping Blog (http://www.thechoppingblog.com/)should be considered for the 2013 awards. We are the largest recreational cooking school in Chicago and have a team of 20+ bloggers that share their cooking and eatings experiences from conquering cooking techniques to trying the new hot spot in the neighborhood. Since we have so many contributors, our blog is a unique mix of content. It's definitely worth a look!
I'm loving the http://www.gastrofotonomia.com site. Great photos - simply amazing. Even though, these days, every one is a photographer, the gastrofotonomia photographer - he/her is the real deal - a professional through and through :)

To anyone who is interested in food and/or wants to start the restaurant please visit my new blog written with he help of three professional restaurant consultants: http://howtostartarestaurant.wordpress.com/. Leave comments if you'd like, I'll make sure they are dofollows and I will reply to each and every one. To anyone and everyone who loves the restaurant industry, let's share some knowledge :)

I know this has nothing to do with your site, but this is a good way to stick out.. If I post on a music site, it'll be lost with thousands of others who probably work just as hard as I do, but this way more people can listen! Our crew works every day, loves music deeply, and havent made any money yet.. We have the skill, just need the recognition! Check us out at a couple of our sites..

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I love so many of these blogs. I can't wait to get here one day! Happy New Year, everyone! ^.~
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The same old blogs. Wake up, people! It's outrageous to see cooking amateurs in this list while trained chef bloggers are left behind. Check out new blogs. There are many new interesting ones, including www.frombraziltoyou.org
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check out my blog- it's actually a food challenge!
Happy to see articles on Best Special Diets Blog.
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I Would like to know how do I do to enter my website for thenext Best Food Blog Award.

Thank you,

Helena
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I Would like to know how do I do to enter my website for thenext Best Food Blog Award.

Thank you,

Helena
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Hello Guys!Check out my food blog!

www.mydailytreats.com

Enjoy!
Congratulations! very inspiring!

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Thanks for this list of top food restaurants.

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Love the article and love food blogs.I just started a food video blog on YouTube where I will post delicious recipes from Brazil. My first show is already online. The first recipe is of Chocolate Brigadeiros, which is a popular brazilian dessert. Check it out if you guys want to learn how to make this easy dish :) http://youtu.be/AK2grD2VzYo
Wow! Very inspirational to see the winners of the blog awards. Will be visiting them for some good tips :)
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WOW!! Nice blog layout design and again thanks for saveur the best food blog awards winner. Big takeaway indian restaurant - www.tandooriflames.com.cu in Melbourne.
WOW!! Nice blog layout design and again thanks for saveur the best food blog awards winner. Big takeaway indian restaurant - www.tandooriflames.com.au in Melbourne.
WOW!! Nice blog layout design and again thanks for saveur the best food blog awards winner. Big takeaway indian restaurant - www.tandooriflames.com.au in Melbourne.
Yummy potatoes stuffing. Slice off the top from the aloo (potatoes) - a thick slice to be used as a lid later, and carefully scoop the inside.Place the Cauliflower, capsicum, peas, onion, chilies, garlic and half salt in a saucepan with the water. Parboil until the water is fully absorbed into the mixture. Fill the mixture into the potatoes, cover with the potato lids and secure with wooden cocktail sticks (toothpicks).Heat the ghee in a kadhai or saucepan and cook the tomatoes with the remaining salt over a moderate.
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Hello! Please consider our Beer Blog at www.SaveOnBrew.com/blog for your 2013 list! We've got fresh content posted daily, including exclusive interviews with brewmasters, feature articles, humorous op-ed pieces, beer reviews, top beer lists, beer science posts, industry news, original infographics, beer price research, and recipes. We're different than most beer blogs you'll come across.
excellent post, very good content.
greetings.
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i am first time watching this blog awards very Inspirational
Greetings From,
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Congratulations to all the winners

Best wishes
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Amazing blogs this year, Congratulations to all the winners and nominees
I hope we can make the list in the future.


Happy Cooking
The RMR chef team

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http://www.repairmyrecipe.com/Fix_My_Recipe.html
Amazing list of winners, and good recipes enlist here. Liked it. Try something continental here... http://www.spicesandsauces.in/
I have gone through the Blog. This is an amazing Blog. Please post this kind of post more. As a food lover, I take a taste of cake buying from Bagels and Brownies and suggest to Order cake in Delhi with them and feast on the delicious treat for satisfying your taste buds.For more information visit @ http://bagelsandbrownies.in
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Congratulations to all the winners and their efforts, it really showed up... http://www.psocial.in/category/food-and-recipes
great list, i checked most of them and are all deserving. so many talents and taste. I love to share my own recipe of sandwiches and have posted them in my blog post here https://www.bidsbypros.com/portal/category/catering-and-recipe-book/
hope you enjoy and maybe one day i get a winner trophy. Hoping!

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