Announcing the Finalists in the 2012 SAVEUR Best Food Blog Awards

We read food blogs as a matter of course, but it wasn't always that way. Sure, there was a time when even the most ardent food lover could get away with shrugging them off, but today, the thought of not taking food blogs seriously is laughable. Their breadth of content, their depth of knowledge, the richness of thought and imagery have changed the world of food media irrevocably, democratizing the conversation by introducing thousands and thousands of new points of view.

We received nearly 40,000 submissions in 16 categories for this year's Best Food Blog Awards, SAVEUR's third annual celebration of the best writing, recipes, and photography the web has to offer. We clicked on every link, scrolled through thousands of pages, and read posts sweet, silly, weird, and wonderful. Sometimes we were moved to tears, sometimes we laughed out loud — and sometimes we couldn't close the browser window fast enough. Based on your nominations, we've narrowed the field to six in each of our sixteen categories. It's our great pleasure to present this year's finalists, blogs and stories that represent the very best culinary content found online.