Beautiful food photography and dynamic page layouts make the nominees for the 2012 Black Weblog Awards Best Food Blog some of the most visually appealing sites on the web, and an illustration of the diversity and creativity of the Black blogosphere. Where else can you find the “Lois Lane of cupcakes“ from Washington, D.C. competing beside two swank sisters from Houston, a creative “Kitchenista“ from South Florida, and a blogger with twin passions of travel and food who is willing to try anything once.
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The Kitchenista Diaries features affordable dishes that rely on fresh local ingredients. The gorgeous pictures make you want to try something different to see if the seared jerk talapia with grilled pineapple and sweet pepper salsa tastes as good as it looks.
Urban Swank included an encyclopedic coverage of the food experiences of Houston, including a soul food series featuring reviews of oxtails and pork chops along with their picks for Houston Restaurant Week.
The Cupcake Critic is about, well you guessed it, cupcakes! But not just any old kind of cupcakes, maple bacon cupcakes and buffalo chicken wing cupcakes. Cupcake recipes, cupcake reviews, cupcake news — it’s all there on the Cupcake Critic.
If you like your food with a side dish of travel, Try Anything Once fuses the blogger’s twin love of food and travel with food reviews from around the world. Check out this review of Baejarina Beztu Pylsur – a hotdog stand that?s a national institution in Iceland.
Nominations for the Black Weblog Awards close on September 3, 2012. Voting begins on September 15th. For a full list of nominees in over 30 categories, visit here.
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