Blogger recipes set to compile cookbook

One of the most popular topics in the Blogosphere focuses on gastronomy. A growing number of people realize that bloggers from a myriad of countries and cultures can offer a wealth of information of culinary treats from all over the world. This is why one of the leaders of online recipes, Foodista, has decided to launch a major competition, inviting bloggers to submit their best recipes to the site. The organization will then involve readers to select the top 100 recipes and these will be published in the form of the world’s first major cookbook written exclusively by bloggers.

Entitled “The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook”, this publication will be the first time that the vast majority of participating bloggers see their culinary ideas published in print. With the competition formally launched earlier this week, the book will appear in stores in late 2010. Barnaby Dorfman, Foodista’s founder, told journalists that the innovative cookbook would serve as a “snapshot” of the remarkable diversity and creativity that one can witness when reading the thousands of food blogs published in English. Dorfman noted that using blogs to spread recipe ideas is an “emerging” form of food writing, and one that he finds especially impressive.

Foodista is an online culinary encyclopaedia which, like Wikipedia, relies on users to generate and edit all relevant entries. Based in Seattle, Washington, the site was originally associated with Amazon, as most of the company’s founders and first editors worked for the online retail giant.