Foodista? Gag them with a spoon.
First off, the pitch for the Foodista Best of the Food Blogs Cookbook sounds like a bad self-publishing come-on:
“Have you dreamed of being published in print? Want to see your writing in a book?”
And with that, we lost our lunch.
We are all for “blogs to books,” or blooks as they are somewhat annoyingly called. We see the impulse-buy nirvana of “This is Why Your Fat” and even think there is a place for the best online food writing to be curated and published, but this contest — and they are calling it a contest — sounds like some ’50s-housewife-entering-a-radio-jingle-to-win-a-prize bullshit.
But really, what more can you expect from a website that willingly calls itself Foodista? Unless they are a liberation army of Nicaraguan rebel chefs they should change that name immediately.
The idea for the Foodista cookblook, apparently came out of a blog-to-books panel at Foodista’s International Food Blogger Conference (which we won’t even get into), and it should have stayed there.
So we now have a bunch of people ripping recipes out of cookbooks and cooking them, putting the recipes on their blogs, and now they are coming back into book form? No wonder publishing is dying.
