Comments on: A year later.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:58:19 +0000

i hate the marketing aspects that seem to have taken over the food blog world and i’m starting to get bummed out a bit.

I gotta come in and say, amen to THAT. I’m really tired of the one-upmanship, the sense that everyone thinks they’re the next M.F.K. Fisher, just waiting for a book deal.

By: kickpleat

kickpleat — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:13:18 +0000

god, thanks for this post! ever since i came back from vacation (35+ days no blogging), it’s been hard to get back into the spirit of things. i hate the marketing aspects that seem to have taken over the food blog world and i’m starting to get bummed out a bit. “shut up and just eat”…indeed. i enjoy reading your blog, so i’m sure whatever you do, will be great.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:55:53 +0000

Write about whatever you feel like and see where the writing takes you?

I discovered you because you were a food blog but I come here to read what you write, not necessarily to read what you write about food. Reading the other comments, it appears that a lot of your readers feel the same way.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:58:49 +0000

Hey there is more to “gezellig” than food! Let us know how you’re making your life more gezellig in other ways. I miss your writing when you don’t do it, and it’s a nice community here, no snarky stuff like on lots of other blogs.

By: Alyce

Alyce — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:44:22 +0000

Happy Anniversary! I’m sorry to hear that blog ennui has got you down. So many bloggers go through that. I hope you don’t shutter this place and hibernate. And, to be honest, I don’t really read because it’s a food blog.

I’d be happy to hear about kid-raising, knitting WIPs, the weather, mental health, music, television, wry observations about the world through your very stylish glasses/eyes. Just about anything.

It was a drag clicking over here just about every day (RSS, blog feeds in general, are just too much pressure for me) to see that you hadn’t posted.

Keep it up if you want. Say goodbye if you don’t.

By: Fen Tiger

Fen Tiger — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:00:31 +0000

Your blog and Kate’s at Accidental Hedonist are the only two blogs, food or otherwise, that I faithfully read.

I like that you’re not all serious and pretentious about food, and that you seem as willing to share the bad with the good (one particular instance is in the photos…I absolutely *love* the one that’s captioned “about this time I started saying ‘fuck’ a lot”). You’re an “everyman’s” foodie. I’m a transplanted resident of a small town in rural Georgia, yet I don’t feel intimidated when I read your blog.

I’ve also enjoyed the new focus on a “greener” way of life, as we are in the process of becoming more conscious of such things.

For what it’s worth, I agree with Beth’s comment above.

Happy anniversary!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:21:17 +0000

Hey. It’s been a while since I’ve commented; seems the end of summer and it’s segue into autumn caught me, not so much by-surprise, but certainly unprepared. I’m so busy, sometimes a week goes by between checking the blogs I read.
(So what, right? I’ll get to the point, even if I seem to be categorically incapable writing less than several hundred words any time I comment.)
For example, the number of food-related posts that have appeared since last I checked my feed-aggregator is 583. In a week, or slightly less. Five. Hundred. Eighty. Three. Like I have time to read each and every post. I mean, I read fast, maybe even VERY fast, but six hundred posts is insane. And that’s just in the food realm – I have a pretty wide range of interests.
(As an aside, because there has to be a digression, or it wouldn’t be a comment from me, note that I am employed full-time, have my own “supplementary” business from home and am working on a thesis project – so I really am crazed…but back to the point…)
Out of those nearly six hundred “foodie” posts, the first one I checked was…you guessed it…gezillig-girl. Why, you may ask? Not because you write about food, but because your style, your “turns of phrase,”, or manner, or ummm, your je ne sais quoi, if you will, makes me gezellig.
My advice, for what it’s worth: Write when you want, about what you want; write for yourself (for me, writing is cathartic, regardless of who may or may not read it)…those of us who enjoy “reading you” (what a strange term that is) will read regardless of your subject: food, life, the joys of living in NYC (living in Northern California, I have to say I am insanely jealous…just kidding, but I DO love New York), whatever.
My hope: That you keep blogging and find your “gezelligish-ness” (God, I love English and the ability to co-opt and create words at a writer’s whim) once again!
Finally, thanks for the last year!

By: Terry B

Terry B — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:41:29 +0000

Kristen–Happy anniversary. I’m just a couple/few weeks behind you anniversarywise and have to admit I occasionally have burn-out moments. But I’m still having fun too. For me, the problem tends to be more the deadline pressure of posting every week than actually burning out on the subject matter. It helps that I have a couple of sidebars to my blog that let me discuss music and whatever else crosses my mind. Of course, those impose their own deadline pressures too.

Selfishly speaking, I’d say keep writing. I love to read you. It doesn’t matter if it’s food or not. Just write about life—in New York, as a parent, as a lover of [insert passions here]. You have the luxury of a non-foodie blog name—make the most of it and have fun again.

By: reese

reese — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:45:13 +0000

I have this love/hate relationship with food bloggers. I mean, some of them seem to be pretty neat, with nice photos and all that, but a lot of them? COME ON PEOPLE! I wonder if they do anything else with their lives other than show others just how knowledgeable they are about food, and just how retarded other people are. Jeez…

Maybe this is just a phase. Don’t think of it so much as a NEED to write about food all the time. Why not write about some other stuff and take a break?

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:48:39 +0000

Oh do I understand your pain.

Do what you will, but whatever you do, do it with style and grace. I believe you’ll never have a problem with that.