A little bit of self-promotion, a little more patience please

It's always an unexpected but pleasant surprise to discover a media mention about Grab Your Fork. And yet there's also a sense of Tall Poppy Syndrome Aussie awkwardness when it comes to self-promotion. I won't deny it's nice to be recognised, but perhaps more exciting is the sense that food blogs are becoming more and more recognised as valid forms of new media.

We know they're cool. It's time that everyone else realised it too.



The June 8 issue of the Sunday Telegraph's Sunday magazine highlighted both Grab Your Fork and Ed's Melbourne-based Tomato in its A-Z of "Cutting Edge Cuisine... the hottest trends in the food industry". Listed under B for Blog, we joined F for Fairtrade, Q for Quinoa and D for Degustation.



On the SBS Food website, Grab Your Fork gets mentioned in the recommended blogs list that accompanies the article "Everyone's a Critic". Basically a layman's guide to the growth of food blogs, it's a shame that the article focuses on blogs in the United States and Europe (including quotes from a blogger in Estonia!) when there is such a depth of talent in our own backyard. Australian journalist Michael Shafran's blog Gosstronomy also gets a brief nod.



And finally, in the November 2008 issue of Home Beautiful's Kitchen News, Grab Your Fork is nominated as one of their top 3 food blogs along with Jules' Stone Soup and Robyn's New York-based The Girl Who Ate Everything.