For Recipes/Favorite Blogs:
- The Sweet Beet
- The Noble Pig
- 101 Cookbooks
- I made that!
- Can You Stay for Dinner?
- Burgers and Nails
- The Pastry Affair
- Gluten is my Bitch
- Top of the Apple
- Use Real Butter
- Vegan Dad
- Post Punk Kitchen
- Healthy, Happy, Life.
- Eat and {Relish}
- The Pioneer Woman
- Veggie Belly
- Sprinkles of Parsley
For Food News:
- The Food Section
- Earth Eats
- NPR’s Food Blog- The Salt
- Foodista
- VegNews
- Food Safety News
- Harvest
- Huffington Post Food
- Food Politics
For Food Writing:
- Jacob, Dianne. Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2010. Print.
- Baker, Jane, and Barbara Gibbs Ostmann. The Recipe Writer’s Handbook, Revised and Updated. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Print.
For International Food/Traveling:
For Food Photography:
- Dujardin, Helen. Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling. Indianapolis: Wiley, 2011. Print.
- Vivaldo, Denise. The Food Stylist’s Handbook. Layton: Gibbs Smith, 2010. Print.
For Health-Related:
- Davis, Brenda, and Vessanto Melina. Becoming Vegan: The complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet. Summertown: Book Publishing Company, 2000. Print.
- Bittman, Mark. Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
- Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. Print.
For Purchasing Foods/Kitchen Equipment
For Local DC
- Hill’s Kitchen
- Bon Appetit Foodie
- Soupergirl
- Washingtonian blog- Best Bites
- Bitches Who Brunch
- Washington Post’s Going Out Guide


