Andrews McMeel Publishing and Foodista.com Partner on Best of Food Blogs Cookbook
and Competition
Web site now accepting submissions of recipes, photography, and writing for inclusion in
cookbook to be published in 2010

Kansas City, MO, and Seattle, WA (December 1, 2009)—Beginning today, food bloggers
worldwide are invited to submit their favorite recipes and photos for possible inclusion in
a Foodista.com cookbook to be published in fall 2010 by Andrews McMeel Publishing
(AMP).

The idea behind “The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook” took form during a “Blog to
Book” panel at the first International Food Blogger Conference earlier this year. There
AMP and Foodista.com, the cooking encyclopedia everyone can edit, identified a strong
desire among food bloggers to see their work appear in book form. Now they’ll have the
opportunity.

For the next three months, food bloggers can submit their photography, writings, and
original recipes to Foodista.com. The public can view all submissions on the Web site
and vote for their favorites. That feedback and editors at both companies will determine
the approximately 100 entries chosen for inclusion in “The Foodista Best of Food Blogs
Cookbook.” Each winner will receive a free copy of the cookbook.

Food blogging has exploded in recent years as people from all walks of life have turned
to the Web to share their kitchen knowledge and artistry. Posts take the form of prose
and photography about everything from ethnic foods to specialized diets and family
holiday traditions. AMP is an apt partner for the cookbook as the company has enjoyed
great success going from online to print, particularly with this year’s “Cake Wrecks:
When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong” by Jen Yates. The New York Times best
seller is based on Yates’ phenomenally popular Cakewrecks.com blog, and with 75
percent original content, the book has appealed to the author’s established blog following
as well as to new fans.

“Andrews McMeel Publishing is thrilled to continue its Web-to-print program by
partnering with Foodista.com in producing an innovative and beautiful cookbook,” said
AMP Publisher Kirsty Melville. “We’re excited about getting the world’s best food-blog
content in front of the wide audience to be reached with AMP’s extensive marketing and
distribution networks.”

Barnaby Dorfman, founder and CEO of Foodista.com, said: “We love cookbooks, which
are different from our online cooking encyclopedia that is constantly evolving. The
creativity we see from food bloggers is so impressive, we decided that a collection in
book form would be a great snapshot of this emerging form of food writing.”

To enter the contest, bloggers simply need to visit www.foodista.com/blogbook. There
they can cut and paste recipes from existing blog posts into Foodista.com’s recipe
submission form and upload photos directly to the Web site. There is no limit to the
number of submissions each blogger can enter. The contest runs from now until Feb. 28,
2010, and is free for all to enter. Winners will be announced at the 2010 International
Food Bloggers Conference in Seattle, planned for late summer.

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