You can build a food blog easily and maintain it well with some effort. It can also earn you dollars. Read on...
Food blogs are blogs on a variety of subjects related to human food – recipes, cooking tips, nutrition, restaurants, raw material availability, drinks, anecdotes about cookery, table manners, cookware, weekly challenges and competitions…
Food blogs are often passionately built and exceptionally well composed. Many food bloggers not only write detailed posts, but also spruce up their posts with photos taken by them. Some maintain a huge resource base on recipes, spices and so on. In fact, we would keep this category of blogs higher in blogging terms than blogs on blogging itself!
Food blogs are mostly written and maintained as personal blogs by cooking enthusiasts. Such bloggers could be people who cook for the family or experts / chefs. Some dietitians and nutrition experts also write food blogs.
We list below 9 important aspects that prospective food-bloggers must keep in mind [and existing bloggers must introduce if they’ve ignored these]:
Write short paragraphs and don’t make a post too long.
Separate different segments of a post [e.g. steps of a recipe; different aspects of a restaurant] by giving them a bullet point or number. Put a small photo where relevant at the end of a segment.
When using local terms and ingredients, give their English equivalent in bracket. Do the reverse for too technical or rarely used English expressions.
Use grams and ml for measurements and give their approximate value in commonly used terms [e.g. 100 ml (about half tea-cup) water].
At the end of posts, give precautions which might otherwise go unnoticed [e.g. if some step in cooking might lead to oil catching fire] or health warnings [e.g. if a dish contains high quantities of salt].
Food blogs are blogs on a variety of subjects related to human food – recipes, cooking tips, nutrition, restaurants, raw material availability, drinks, anecdotes about cookery, table manners, cookware, weekly challenges and competitions…
Food blogs are often passionately built and exceptionally well composed. Many food bloggers not only write detailed posts, but also spruce up their posts with photos taken by them. Some maintain a huge resource base on recipes, spices and so on. In fact, we would keep this category of blogs higher in blogging terms than blogs on blogging itself!
Food blogs are mostly written and maintained as personal blogs by cooking enthusiasts. Such bloggers could be people who cook for the family or experts / chefs. Some dietitians and nutrition experts also write food blogs.
We list below 9 important aspects that prospective food-bloggers must keep in mind [and existing bloggers must introduce if they’ve ignored these]:
1. Scope of blog's subject-matter: variety or niche?
You need to decide beforehand whether you want the blog to focus on one narrow subject [e.g. Coorg cuisine, baking, table manners, food trucks] or a slightly bigger theme [e.g. South American cooking, spicy food], or to talk of everything relating to food / cooking. This is very important, because many other decisions depend on this. It is better to concentrate on areas on which one has expertise.2. The writing part
One problem we found with some English food blogs was poor English. If you have a problem with the language, write less and write in short, simple sentences. Better, get the posts proof-read by someone proficient in English (or whatever the language of blog may be).Write short paragraphs and don’t make a post too long.
Separate different segments of a post [e.g. steps of a recipe; different aspects of a restaurant] by giving them a bullet point or number. Put a small photo where relevant at the end of a segment.
When using local terms and ingredients, give their English equivalent in bracket. Do the reverse for too technical or rarely used English expressions.
Use grams and ml for measurements and give their approximate value in commonly used terms [e.g. 100 ml (about half tea-cup) water].
At the end of posts, give precautions which might otherwise go unnoticed [e.g. if some step in cooking might lead to oil catching fire] or health warnings [e.g. if a dish contains high quantities of salt].
