When I started reading food blogs in early 2007, two web sites jumped out at me right away as great resources with great voices. The first was Monster Munching OC, a deep reservoir of informed, informative and fun reviews of an expanse of land with much more amazing food than most people realize.

The second was Not Eating Out in New York, a home cooking blog whose adventures in eating in go far beyond the slogan and the simple task of cooking: By not eating out for two years (in New York City of all places), Cathy Erway transformed her blog into an intellectual, economic and emotional resource for anyone intimidated or bored by the idea of fending for yourself in the kitchen. She also became a voice for the growing community of food entrepreneurs in Brooklyn, an achievement which cemented her candidacy for a book about the experience of eating in.

That book, The Art of Eating In, is now on bookshelves everywhere, and as part of its launch, Cathy is returning to her kitchen for seven straight days of eating in. She’s asked a few other bloggers, including me, to join her in spreading the word, so starting Monday, February 22, we will all be urging our readers to take the challenge with us – on our own blogs, on the book’s web site, and on the Huffington Post.

I’ll be going all-out with a new story every single day of the challenge, so prepare yourself for some of the most prolific blogging ever attempted on this site! See y’all at apartment kitchen stadium.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 3:30 pm and is filed under New York, news.