Blogging Awards - To And From

Jen at Real Good Taste was kind enough to give me, not one, but TWO awards. THANKS, Jen! I really, really appreciate it. The first one is the Arte y Pico award. I love being part of the blogging community and let’s face it, this picture is really cool!

The rules for the Arte y Pico Award:
1) Award five blogs that contribute to the blogging community through creativity, design, and interesting material, regardless of language.
2) Name each of the five blog authors and provide a link to his or her blog.
3) Award recipients must show the Arte y Pico Award image and the name of the award-giving blog author, as well as the award-giving blog author’s blog link.
4) Award recipients must provide a link to the Arte y Pico blog.
5) Award recipients must show these rules.

I would like to pass this on to the following fantastic bloggers:

Dhanngit from Dhanngit’s Kitchen. Her food is fabulous. She emphasizes fresh, locally available ingredients and cooks with a marvelous French, and sometimes Asian, twist (my favorite combination). The details of her hectic life in the south of France (ahhhhhhhhh, the SOUTH of FRANCE…need I say more?) are fascinating. And her pictures are always glorious representations of her wonderful recipes.

Cynthia’s Tastes Like Home introduces us to all kinds of international and Caribbean dishes, including many from her homeland of Guyana. I love how she gives us a piece of herself with every recipe, including many interesting stories from her childhood and her painstaking photography is beautiful.


No list for special blogs that “contribute to the blogging community through creativity” would be complete without Emiline’s Sugar Plum. The operative word here is original. Her own, invented recipes range from the sublime to the…more sublime. Where she gets some of these ideas in her newly highlighted head, I don’t know, but I’m just glad she does.

Costas the Greek’s I Love Olive Oil Blog is dedicated to one thing – fine olive oil. He tastes prodigious amounts of different oils from around the world, because, he says, “A fine extra virgin olive oil can transform the most ordinary ingredients into a sublime culinary experience”. I admire his skill in reporting every little nuance of its flavor. (I personally think Spanish is the best…but never mind.)

Mae Gabriel’s Rice And Noodles is a blog I’ve recently discovered with exquisite pictures. Her French style "Macarons" are a thing of beauty. Her front page is always a magnificent photograph and then you click on "Info/Comments” to get the recipe and more information.

The next award bestowed on me by Jen was the Yummy Award Blog.

I’m passing it on to some blogs with great food, great information and one that’s really unusual…but wonderful:

The goes to The Essential Rhubarb Pie.
Rachel is a food-loving blogger and chronicler of what she eats and bakes. We hear about the meals for her finicky husband (who doesn't have one of those?) and their special dinners out. Her co-workers are lucky enough to be at the receiving end of regular treats from her kitchen, plus she loves horsies.

The goes to Fruit Species.
This is where I go to learn about strange and wonderful exotic fruits. The Great Morinda is ugly, the Pulasan fascinating. Fruity
does a great job on them all.

The goes to We Are Never Full.
Besides the name, which I love, Amy & Jonny’s blog is full of recipes, interesting posts on different food topics and lots of food fun and great pictures.

The goes to Suspect and Fugitive.

Rakka is a brilliant artist who fashions works of art (many of them wonderful portraits) out of food stuffs. Amy Poehler was done in poultry seasoning; John Oates in cheese; Friedrich Nietzsche’s visage was created from tahini and Stephen Colbert, made from blackberries, is also worth a look. Rakka is seriously strange and immensely talented.