My Favorite Food Blogs/Channels

Recipes, food myths, challenges and life hacks. There's a lot of food-related content out there on social media, and these are some of my favorites...

Great Depression Cooking features stories and recipes from Clara, an Italian-American grandmother who was a school girl during the Great Depression. Produced by Clara's grandson. Clara passed away in 2013, but her grandson was still processing through video and voice recordings at least through the end of 2020.

The Crazy Gorilla presents humorous but often educational videos about Mexican/ Mexican-American culture, especially food.

Food Science Babe busts common food myths (and sometimes outright lies) that keep getting spread around YouTube/ Tiktok/ Facebook.

Alonso Lerone does reaction videos and food challenges, but his best material comes from watching him try weird food combinations his viewers have suggested. Watch him eat Oreos with mayonnaise or mustard on a watermelon. Sometimes the suggestions turn out surprisingly good, and sometimes... not so much.

Uncle Roger portrayed by comedian Nigel Ng reviews food videos and also shows his own cooking skills as a stereotypical Asian uncle.

DollarTreeAddicts has a series of videos preparing tasty and budget friendly meals with most or all the ingredients bought at Dollar Tree.

Pollo Wang serves up a mix of fancy restaurant-inspired cuisine and grown-up versions of low budget childhood favorites with an old school hip hop sound.

Quincy's Tavern is a multiplatform digital tavern inspired by role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons and World of War craft. Although not specifically a food page, Quincy makes some delicious looking food and drinks as part of his content. I follow him on Facebook, but he's active on Twitch, Twitter, and other platforms as well.

My favorite TV cooking show of all time is Louisiana Cooking with Justin Wilson, as much because of Wilson's storytelling and humor as it was because of the food. If you're fortunate enough to have access to RFDTV you can watch his anthology series Looking Back. For the rest of us, YouTube is a great resource. Unfortunately, the video quality on many of these videos had deteriorated pretty badly before being digitized.