If you are a food connoisseur and interested in foods of different styles and tastes, you may be interested in checking out Foodies Across Borders. Here you will find a place where friends who live a long way apart share their thoughts and ideas on cooking, entertaining, and eating out. This blog reviews restaurants and also babbles on about current trends in cooking. They also have their own test kitchens where they review recipes and odd product here and there. You may want to grab lunch before you have a look there though, as viewing this site will definitely make you hungry. Take a bite of any of their recent bloggeries to see if this blog whets your appetite: Video: Elton John Gets Creative, Party Porn: Tap the Keg, Food Porn: Jalapeno Shrimp, Getting Ready for the BBQ of the Decade, and Overheard at Dinner.
The blog is fairly straightforward to navigate. The header contains a very handsome looking header with a juicy steak and top menu bar that contains the Home page, About Page, and Archives menu. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two right navigation bars. Posts are also standard black text on white background and all posts contain relevant and very appetizing looking pictures with the posts. In the left of the two right navigation bars you will find the about information. You will then find in the far right navigation bar a Blair Valley Media Blog List menu, food blog lists, food resources, and a healthy categories menu. The recipe lover will get a kick out of the categories menu as it is sorted by not only courses but by food styles, gadgets, seen on TV, Eating out, and so much more.
I am going with a 2.7/5 for this blog and will mention that it is the activity that is hurting this blog the most. Posts are infrequent and are being entered less than monthly at times. I think this is a very unique blog that food lovers could really grab a bite out of, so the lack of activity is not benefiting this blog. In appearance and navigation this blog scores reasonably well though a Recent Posts Menu would also help in the navigation area. The content is well written, and in concert with the excellent pictures on site really make each post very appealing to the readership. I would also suggest the left sided navigation bar be moved to the left margin of the page, as with no content underneath the about information there is a lot of white space on the blog. Moving it would eliminate that space in the middle of the blog and organize this a little better. With just a few of these formatting issues tweaked, and some regular writing, I could see this blog doing very well and would definitely recommend it to any chef’s or food lovers in the blogosphere.
– Chrissie