This morning on the Today Show there was a segment on the adorable weblog, Smitten Kitchen.In the segment, they went inside Deb's tiny apartment, introduced her family, and talked about the mom's new fame of being a food blogger. In the interview, Deb mentioned that no matter what anyone says she is: "not a chef." This comment got me thinking, are food bloggers becoming the new big time chefs?
I remember one season on America's Next Top Model, one of the judges criticized actresses for pretending to be models and that this was putting models out of jobs. So, could food bloggers who present themselves as moms rather than chefs, soon put the people qualified as chefs out of popularity?
In my opinion, I do not think that chefs will entirely be put away -- we all love Food Network too much. What I think is going on here, is that moms love the idea of reading blogs written by a mother, shopping at the local grocery store, and juggling kids and a gourmet-home-made dinner all at the same time. It gives a sense of realness to the whole concept of cooking breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between.
(But it is also about how freakin' adorable Smitten Kitchen and other food blogs are.)
Any thoughts?
View the segment here.
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