Beautiful food

April 3, 2017 8:27 AM

Despite Instagram, in-depth and beautiful food blogs are still a thing. A Life Worth Eating covers lovely fancy meals (and coffee) from around the world, such as El Bulli at its height and the sushi restaurant made famous by Jiro, and most recently, the (apparently much improved) Per Se. The long-standing ulterior epicure [prev] is similar, though the writing is longer and clever clever (see this older review of the famous Fat Duck), and there is a healthy (okay, not healthy) dose of much less upscale food from the American Midwest and South, and some excellent top dishes and restaurant lists.
posted by blahblahblah (11 comments total)

I should mention that if you like Chef's Table on Netflix, you can see reviews of many of the restaurants on these blogs.
posted by blahblahblah at 8:28 AM on April 3, 2017

I'd like to see one with a more European focus. A Life Worth Eating seems mainly NYC with occasional trips abroad it seems. I'm thinking Catalonian, Piemonte, and new Nordic particularly.
posted by vacapinta at 8:37 AM on April 3, 2017

We've been binging Samurai Gourmet, which is simultaneously the dumbest and most brilliant television series. It's equal parts the re-affirmation of life for a genuinely good man entering retirement, wish fulfillment fantasy, and some of the most amazing Japanese food porn I've seen filmed.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:55 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

For other cool food blogging, Janice Poon, who did the food design for "Hannibal", has a blog that she used to show a bunch of her Hannibal stuff, Feeding Hannibal.
posted by rmd1023 at 9:05 AM on April 3, 2017

I'd like to see one with a more European focus.

Yeah that's a good question. I've followed both ulterior epicure and A life worth eating for years. But I also kept meaning to look into if there's non-English blogs doing similar coverage as well. Like when I was lucky to visit Japan once I resorted to the Japanese language version of Tabelog which was incredibly comprehensive.
posted by polymodus at 11:50 AM on April 3, 2017

polymodius - any other sites you'd suggest following if I like these two?
posted by blahblahblah at 12:13 PM on April 3, 2017

I'm curious about A Life Worth Eating. The photography and food is fantastic, but taking these kind of multiple, elaborate photographs seems to be very frowned upon or even prohibited in many high-end restaurants. I assume he's not using a flash, but the DSLR camera and lens shown in one photo are hardly discreet. I wonder what his relationship with the restaurants are like. What I do know is, if I ever get to go to a Thomas Keller resturant and the table next to me is setting up a mini-photo shoot, I'm going to be pretty annoyed.

For other cool food blogging, Janice Poon, who did the food design for "Hannibal", has a blog that she used to show a bunch of her Hannibal stuff, Feeding Hannibal.

Hey, I made an FPP about Janice Poon! 2015 sounds like a lifetime ago now.
posted by Room 641-A at 12:31 PM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

Oops, meant to add Ramentology, an Instagram of every bowl of ramen this guy eats. And he eats a lot of ramen.
posted by Room 641-A at 12:36 PM on April 3, 2017

Most of this kind of stuff has moved to Instagram.

There are lots of euro centric photogs
posted by JPD at 3:47 PM on April 3, 2017

I like food just fine. But, pursuant to Per Se: what is the point of putting one small bowl of "Borscht" - Short Rib Pierogi and Horseradish Crème Fraîcheon in one small bowl stacked upon four plates? I'm paying for a dishwasher, not a meal.
posted by kozad at 4:56 PM on April 3, 2017

Presentation?
posted by flippant at 5:40 PM on April 3, 2017