Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • 10 Food Blog Posts That’ll Get You Traffic

    10 Food Blog Posts That’ll Get You Traffic

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    This past weekend I gave a lecture at Food Blog South in Birmingham, Alabama. The title of my speech was “10 Food Blog Posts That’ll Get You Traffic” and though I was slightly nervous going in–this was my first time both attending and speaking at a food blog conference–I felt validated, after it was over,…

  • Are Food Blogs Over?

    Are Food Blogs Over?

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    [Image from Roboppy’s Flickr via Slashfood.] In this week’s New York Magazine, there’s a story about a 27-year old who spends most of her life and her money eating out at trendy, of-the-moment restaurants. To be honest, I didn’t read the article—that’s the side of the food world I have zero interest in (fad-following)—but one…

  • How To Support Yourself As A Food Blogger

    How To Support Yourself As A Food Blogger

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    In 2006, I graduated N.Y.U.’s dramatic writing program and moved to Brooklyn with my friend Diana. At the time, I’d been food blogging for two years and had just sold a book to Bantam/Dell that came with a pretty decent advance. Before I sold the book to Bantam, I had ads on my blog—Google Ads,…

  • Dinner with Two Atlanta Food Critics at Peter Chang’s

    Dinner with Two Atlanta Food Critics at Peter Chang’s

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    In 2004, Atlanta Journal-Constitution food critic John Kessler wrote an article about me and my blog called “Welcome to Adam’s.” (You can read it here.) At the time, food blogging was very, very new and Kessler was baffled and amused by my antics: “Why does this recent Emory law school grad record every meal he…

  • Ten Rules for Food Blogging

    Ten Rules for Food Blogging

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    Inspired by this piece in the Guardian, in which several successful fiction writers (including Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, and Jonathan Franzen) give their ten rules for writing fiction, here are my ten rules for food blogging. (I hope my other senior food blogging colleagues write their own ten rules too.) 1. Have a hook. That…