[Spivak]

I would hesitate to call recipe blogs "blogs." They're ad farms with good SEO and the thinnest veneer of content to get clicks.

There are actual cooking and baking blogs of the quality you see in software where professionals or hobbyists talk about their craft but they won't show up on Google with terms like "$food_name recipe" and it doesn't really make sense for them to. Cooking blogs are for cooking nerds -- people who have notebooks and scrap books full of recipe clippings from old magazines and cake boxes and a shelf of random dog-eared culinary textbooks and recipe anthologies that could knock a person out if you got hit with them. These blogs are full of crappy unflattering photography, zero web design skills, okay-ish writing, and cult-like followings.

[watwut]

It would actually made sense of them to show up. What google chooses to show does not make sense to show up. When it comes to cooking, google is just horribly bad.

[Finnucane]

Is there a "Hacker News" equivalent for cooking/foodie blogs? If not, there probably could be.

[tekknolagi]

Sure there is. There's a super well-frequented bread forum that is kind of like HN. Experience reports, recipe recommendations, etc.

[saagarjha]

You can't say that it exists and not share the name of it!

[tekknolagi]

Ah sorry. It's the fresh loaf.

[markdown]

breadit

[qznc]

There is a subreddit for everything they say.

[munchbunny]

Do you have any examples of good cooking and baking blogs? I've been looking, but as you say, SEO is a problem for organic discovery for me.

[ghaff]

There are tons.

Food52

SpruceEats

Tiny Urban Kitchen

Serious Eats

A lot depends on your food and style preferences.

[erikbye]

As mentioned, not by me, elsewere in this thread, people seem to have trouble separating businesses from the kinds of blogs that are sorely missed. They were not the kind that tried to sell you anything.

I only checked two of these, Food52 and Serious Eats, these are businesses, not personal, quirky blogs. I am 100% sure that these are not the kind author of "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs" miss. And if the author of "Blogging Is Not Dead," think so, he too, has misunderstood.

I guess many, especially the younger crowd, is now just so inundated by these types of websites that they have no idea what we are talking about.

[shadowprofile77]

And every single one of these has regularly appeared for me on page one google searches when I look up something like "Recipe for X" or "Best X recipe" So maybe Google search hasn't quite yet been completely murdered by SEO for garbage as some of the comments here claim.