The 2011 SAVEUR Best Food Blog Awards: The Winners

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When we opened nominations for this year's Best Food Blog Awards, we had no idea we'd find ourselves deluged with over 40,000 individual plugs for websites. Narrowing them down to six finalists in seventeen categories was no easy task — but an even harder job fell to the thousands of you who voted, picking just one blog above all others in its category. Our warmest thanks go to everyone who cast their vote; our heartiest congratulations to all our finalists. Here are your 2011 SAVEUR Best Food Blog Award winners!

WINNER: Joy the Baker**

Finalists

Desserts for Breakfast
Eat the Love
Evan's Kitchen Ramblings
She Who Eats
Sprinkle Bakes

WINNER: Cafe Fernando: Brownies with Hazelnut Butter and Chocolate Lace**

Finalists

Beyond the Plate: Bomboloni with Meyer Lemon Curd
Seven Spoons: Frozen Eton Mess
La Tartine Gourmande: Spiced Pumpkin Pots de Creme with Sauteed Apples and Pistachios
Sprinkle Bakes: Crown Jewel Cake

WINNER: Smitten Kitchen **

Finalists

101 Cookbooks
I Made That
Lottie and Doof
Sprouted Kitchen
The Wednesday Chef

WINNER: 101 Cookbooks: Quinoa Skillet Bread **

Finalists

Local Lemons: Sweet Corn, Chilis, and Burrata over Fettuccine
Delicious Days: Caesar Salad - Kind Of, But Better
Dinner: A Love Story: Baked Sausages with Apples and Potatoes
Eating Brooklyn: Farro Salad with Roasted Red Grapes, Kale and Swiss Chard
Melissa Clark: Braised Pork Shoulder with Tomatoes, Cinnamon, and Olives over Polenta

WINNER: What Katie Ate **

Finalists

101 Cookbooks
Beyond the Plate
Not Without Salt
Seven Spoons
Sunday Suppers

WINNER: What Katie Ate: Double Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova **

Finalists

Canelle et Vanille: Pear-Apple-Fennel Salad
Fussing with Forks: Roast Chicken
La Tartine Gourmande: Red Snapper
Nordjlus: Figs
Orangette: Blood Oranges

WINNER: Vinography**

Finalists

Alice Feiring
Blog About Beer
Good Wine Under $20
Washington Beer Blog
Wine Terroirs

WINNER: Drink Dogma**

Finalists

Alcademics
Cask Strength
Cocktailians
Jeffrey Morganthaler
Kaiser Penguin

WINNER: David Lebovitz **

Finalists

Eating Asia
My Kugelhopf
Rambling Spoon
Souvlaki for the Soul
Traveler's Lunchbox

WINNER: FoodWishes **

Finalists

Epic Meal Time
Food Curated
Food52
Perennial Plate

Sky Full of Bacon

WINNER: Homesick Texan **

Finalists

Indian Simmer
Jun Belen
Just Hungry
Lucullian Delights
She Simmers

WINNER: The Kitchn **

Finalists

Delicious Days: How to Organize Your Spices
Food in Jars: Equipment
Kitchen Generation
Lifehacker: The Geek's Guide to Rebooting Your Kitchen
Regrettably Edible: Top 11 Crappy Kitchen Tools To Avoid

WINNER: Bon Appetempt: "In the Kitchen With Grandma"**

Finalists

Gluten-Free Girl: "Apple Fennel Slaw (New Year's Cleanse)"
Monica Bhide: "Does a Recipe Need to be Complicated to be Good?"
Vanilla Garlic: "For Many Reasons: Blood and Chocolate"
Leite's Culinaria: "Saints, Cakes, and Redemption"
Grub Street: "The Crowded Restaurant Conundrum: Why We're All Gluttons for Punishment"

WINNER: The Bitten Word **

Finalists

Alinea at Home
Cookbook Archaeology
Momofuku for Two
Nose to Tail at Home
The Way We Ate

WINNER: Tartelette**

Finalists

Alkaline Sisters
Golubka
What the Hell Does a Vegan Eat Anyway?
The Sweet Beet
Silvana's Kitchen

WINNER: The Girl Who Ate Everything **

Finalists

Immaculate Infatuation
KevinEats
Skillet Doux
The Delicious Life
The Ulterior Epicure

WINNER: David Lebovitz **

Finalists

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Cooking Issues
Dorie Greenspan
Food52
Melissa Clark

The SAVEUR Best Food Blog Awards will be back again next year! Thank you again to all who participated.