A Full Belly

c&z readers' guide

NYC Chocolate & Zucchini Readers' Guide to NYC. Clotilde is in town visiting for a few days and put together a page out of her reader recommendations. It's a solid if fairly predictable list with lots of very safe hits (i.e. no Sietsema-ish adventures into cheap or ethnic eats—you can guess the C&Z reader demographic), but still well worth looking over even if you already live in the city.

dead to us

"Certain establishments have offended us in such a manner that they are, and will forever be... DEAD TO US. If it's an accident, we always forgive. If it's deliberate, we never forgive." Dead To Us is a relatively new food blog with two main features: 1) they only run negative reviews, and 2) they take submissions. Currently all the reviews are in or around Seattle but perhaps they'll run stuff about restaurants from other cities as well?

market manila

Market Manila. "A food weblog that talks about ingredients, food, food stuffs, recipes, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe." Well-written and easy on the eyes, I've only just discovered this site but it's now easily my favorite Filipino food blog. The writer is currently visiting New York and discussing food here, but going through the archives really makes me miss Manila.

the bottom feeder

The Bottom Feeder is a great new blog dedicated to trying out all sorts of strange products and recipes. Would you eat Thai Orchid Lychees in Heavy Syrup purchased for 99 cents? "When I opened up my semi-fresh-looking can of lychees, the first thing I noticed was their visual appeal. They have none. In fact, they looked like a bunch of pickled pigs' knuckles in a can." [via The Girl Who Ate Everything]

5 borough pizza tour, part 1

NYC Special Feature - Pizza World Tour. Five pizzas, one consumed in each borough, all in one day! This is the first installment, the pies reviewed are from DiFara's (Brooklyn), Nick's Pizza (Queens) and Full Moon Pizzeria (the Bronx).

i love looka!

I'm surprised I don't see Chuck Taggart's long-running weblog Looka! on more food blogger blogrolls as he's been a constant source inspiration to me for years now. Chuck not only eats well but he writes about the things he eats so superbly that just thinking about his site starts me salivating; many a time have I had to wipe my keyboard free of drool after reading about his latest meal.

His particular interests are New Orleans and Lousiana cuisine (he hosts The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page), cocktails (he posts many rare and unusual recipes) and something near and dear to my own heart, the best of all foods: bacon. My friend Souris and I talk about it all the time but we are mere amateurs, while Chuck and his crew easily win the Grand Slam. (If that last link doesn't make your soul glad, I don't know what to do with you.)

I love Bacon Press!

I love Bacon Press! Bacon Press is a funny and smart blog about food, of course.