The Herald hasn't figured what to do with this internet thing anymore than any other paper, but they've taken a big step in the right direction by partnering with BlogNetNews to create a community blog aggregator.
Not unsurprisingly, the local bloggers are quite pleased.
Jacob KatelCarlos Miller from nbcmiami.com interviews the "Burger Beast" Sef Gonzalez while family and friends look on. BurgerBeast.com is a first-person eater, as in Sef Gonzalez (not to be mistaken with Australian murderer Sef Gonzales) blogging his way across every burger he eats. Last night John Martin's Irish Pub & Restaurant in Coral Gables introduced the Burger Beast menu.General Manager Cristina Moguel says "Sef's a regular. His first time in, he said he was gonna try every burger on
Jacob Katel Food photography is a hell of niche. Plenty of highly paid, professional, top-model type camerafolk can't shoot so much as a sandwich with 50 gigs and an hour. A lot of us in the food blogosphere are using consumer level point n shoots, and we're getting to be fuckin' awesome. Sure we've got issues with compression, color loss, bad lighting, poor focus, overediting, or just wanting to eat. Hey, we're learning as we go. Here are a few examples of recent tight work from the community.
A few months back when the Food Network's Bobby Flay named the 50 best burger joints in America, Little Havana's own El Rey De Las Fritas was awarded best burger in Florida. But Sef Gonzalez, the dude behind BurgerBeast.com, says he knows better and recently suggested a Calle Ocho frita crawl to prove it. A frita is a Cuban hamburger. Recipes and techniques vary, but generally it consists of a beef and or chorizo patty griddle fried with chopped onions and paprika, topped with shoestring fries,
Jacob KatelThe kitchen at Bistro One LR at the Ritz Carlton South Beach​Nothin' better than a weekend at the bottom of the map, long as there are no hurricanes. Somthing's brewin' off the coast of Africa though, so get ready. Here are some weekendish posts from some neighborhood food blogs.South Florida Beer Blog travels to Tequesta and visits the Corner Cafe and Brewery.Chowfather goes solo at Yakko-San, orders too much, loves every bite.Natalie at Will Jog For Food goes koo koo for cous cous
Photo by Carlos Miller
Herald staff, writers and local twitterati at Crazy Pianos in Coconut Grove.
If tweetups were a burrito, the South Florida social media scene would be bursting at the tortilla. This past week was crazy busy and the rest of the month isn't going to calm down.
Miami Herald Tweetup
On Thursday, the Miami Herald held its second tweetup at Crazy Pianos in Coconut Grove, with my twitter gal pals Lori Todd (@loritodd) and Mallory Colliflower (@mallcoli) at the door greetin
