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You are here: Home / Cooksister in the media / Times Top 50 Food Blogs in the World – and your help needed

Times Top 50 Food Blogs in the World – and your help needed

by Jeanne Horak on February 18, 2009 28 Comments in Cooksister in the media, Good cause

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Remember what I said last week about good things happening in threes?  Well, I hate to break it to my former nanny, but she’s wrong.

Sometimes, good things happen in TWOS!

Late last night, I had an e-mail from my lovely friend Courtney of Coco Cooks.  Once again, she was quicker on the ball than me and she advised me to check out the Times Online’s list of Top 50 Food Blogs in the World.  Dutifully, I clicked the link and was thrilled to see some of my friends and favourite sites there – David Lebovitz, Becks & Posh, Lucullian Delights, What’s For Lunch, Honey?, the lovely Nordljus and fellow-Londoner A Slice of Cherry Pie.  But wait… what’s this lurking in the mid 40’s???  It’s ME!  Yup, CookSister snuck in at 46 (out of the approximately 33,000 food blogs in existence!).

So if you arrived here today as a result of the Times’ Top 50 Food Blogs article (or – the other good thing – my mention in their Top 10 Food Blogs for the Home Cook article last week), welcome and I hope you enjoy your visit!  Have a browse through my recipe index, sneak a peek at my photographs, and feel free to subscribe to CookSister via e-mail or RSS feed!

And while you are here, I am going to ask shamelessly for your help.

YOUR RECIPES NEEDED!

I am part of a wonderful group of food bloggers called BloggerAid who have decided to stop shaking their heads in dismay at the state of the world and instead, start working on improving things.  BloggerAid’s principal aim is to raise awareness of world hunger and to raise funds for the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), an international organisation working to alleviate hunger around the globe.  More specifically, we have chosen to support the WFP’s School Meals programme which aims to supply a hot nutritious meal to schoolchildren in the world’s poorest countries, as an incentive to parents to keep children in school and thereby break the cycle of poverty.

In BloggerAid’s most ambitious fundraising project to date, we are going to publish a cookbook and every cent raised is going to go to the WFP.  Which is where YOU come in!  We don’t want your money – just your recipe!  All you need to do is to send us one original recipe (e.g. your special banana bread, or your Aunty Mary’s secret pasta sauce – any recipe that’s not from a recipe book or a website), in MS Word format, either with or without a picture – and we will do the rest.  Full details on how to submit a recipe are available here.  But please don’t blog the recipe – we want the book to be full of never-seen-before exclusives and surprises to encourage people to buy it.  Submissions are open until the end of March, so what are you waiting for?  Get submitting!  Not only is it for an excellent cause – just think how good it will feel to see your name and recipe in a glossy cookbook!

Thank you in advance, and normal foodie transmission will resume tomorrow 🙂

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  1. Claudia says

    February 18, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Congrats sister!
    Glad to know that you are doing pretty well!!!
    Cheers,
    C.

    Reply
  2. nina says

    February 18, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    All your hard work is really starting to pay off. Well done…you make us proud!!!

    Reply
  3. NAOmni says

    February 18, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    So glad to see you made the list!
    NAOmni

    Reply
  4. _ts of [eatingclub] vancouver says

    February 18, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Congratulations!

    Reply
  5. Super Sarah says

    February 18, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Wow, congratulations, it must be a wonderful feeling to see your name up in lights with so many others that you respect. You deserve it though. I might be a TERRIBLE commenter, but I am always reading! I love posts like this with lots of inspirational people doing inspirational things, I am going to look through my tried and tested recipes to find one to send in for Bloggeraid. I too feel very connected to the disaster in Zim and wish there was more press about it to keep people involved and committed to helping.

    Reply
  6. Owen says

    February 18, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    wow! congratulations – glad to see you still going strong.

    Reply
  7. Chris Theo says

    February 19, 2009 at 3:23 am

    Long time reader. I stumbled upon the times article going from page to page thinking to myself “where the hell is cooksister??!” then lo and behold at 46 there you were. Well done and well deserved!

    Reply
  8. Dragana says

    February 19, 2009 at 3:29 am

    Congratulations on making the list! You really deserve it! I enjoy your blog very much because it reminds me of my childhood in Germiston. I can just hear your voice, accent and all, in my mind while I read. You make it all very real and interesting. One day I will make those sticky (but yummy) koeksusters!

    Reply
  9. Kit says

    February 19, 2009 at 7:26 am

    Well done, Jeanne! I was also there clicking through the pages to make sure you appeared!
    Now I’ve got to see if I have any recipes that I haven’t blogged yet, for the recipe book – except I usually blog all my recipes, so I might have to work out an adaptation to make it original.

    Reply
  10. Gill says

    February 19, 2009 at 7:34 am

    Well done!! Wow! You must be thrilled 🙂

    Reply
  11. Alex says

    February 19, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Hi there, found you the Times list – great blog. Congrats!

    Reply
  12. Pete Masters says

    February 19, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Well done on the Times listing! I’m Pete, the web editor at MSF – just wanted to say thanks for the mention. Blogger aid looks really good as well. We are doing a similar(ish) project with knitting bloggers at http://www.p-hop.co.uk... Good stuff!

    Reply
  13. Patricia Scarpin says

    February 19, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Congratulations, darling! Your blog is lovely, like you, and deserve to be on that list!

    Reply
  14. courtney says

    February 19, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    Post packed full of info. That baby cause is a good one and hopefully I can do something. Thanks for the link love.

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  15. courtney says

    February 19, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    And Congrats! I forgot. You deserve this success.

    Reply
  16. johanna says

    February 19, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    wohoo! congratulations! well done, you! a nice number four to add. no need to attribute it to luck though, you’ve worked hard to earn it!

    Reply
  17. Bellini Valli says

    February 19, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    So many things to comment on Jeanne. First of all congratulations on being one of the Top 50. That is an amazing accomplishment. Plus for raising awareness for all of these key issues and for the BloggerAid cookbook of course:D

    Reply
  18. Peter says

    February 19, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Jeanne, congratulations on some big and deserved recognotion. It comes as no surprise to me.

    Reply
  19. dawn says

    February 19, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    wow! a big congrats! how did you get on that list? I wonder how they figure that stuff out? well, glad I found your wonderful little piece of food blog heaven!

    Reply
  20. Douglas says

    February 19, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    Your autograph, please!

    Reply
  21. Kevin says

    February 20, 2009 at 3:25 am

    Congrats on the top 50 food blogs!!!

    Reply
  22. deeba says

    February 20, 2009 at 3:52 am

    Well done Jeanne…of course you had to be there! CONGRATS!!!

    Reply
  23. Meeta says

    February 20, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Jeanne, congrats – I was glad to see your name amongst the 50. Well deserved. I really enjoy this space of yours and wish you plenty more dazzling fours in the future! Hugs!

    Reply
  24. Nicisme says

    February 20, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Yay, congrats, how exciting and well deserved!!

    Reply
  25. Paz says

    February 21, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    Congratulations! Well-deserved.
    Thanks for info on others who need help. Thanks for the links.
    Paz

    Reply
  26. Mel says

    February 23, 2009 at 8:13 am

    VERY proud of you. In fact, not only are you a Fartbag, you are now……..an arsehole! Well done, you deserve the recognition. xx

    Reply
  27. Jackie says

    February 25, 2009 at 3:05 am

    Congratulations! I hope this brought you many new readers!

    Reply
  28. Susan from Food Blogga says

    March 5, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Woo-hoo! That is fantastic, Jeanne! Way to go!

    Reply
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