Food Porn Aggregator: Punchfork

Cleverly designed blog aggrigators seem to be all the rage - you know, like Pinterest or Tastespotting. Well folks, we have another one for food blog porn, and it's called Punchfork. Punchfork pre-selects popular food blogs to be on their searchable list. So far they only have 36 and it's...

By Jennifer Woods

August 22, 2011

We’re $800 away from our summer campaign goal,
with just 5 days left!

We’re ready to deliver—but we need the resources to do it right. If Phoenix New Times matters to you, please take action and contribute today to help us expand our current events coverage when it’s needed most.

Contribute Now

Progress to goal

$7,000

$6,200

Audio By Carbonatix

[
          {
            "name": "GPT - Billboard - Slot Inline - Content - Labeled - No Desktop",
            "component": "21251496",
            "insertPoint": "2",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "2"
          },{
            "name": "STN Player - Float - Mobile Only ",
            "component": "21327862",
            "insertPoint": "2",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "2"
          },{
            "name": "Editor Picks",
            "component": "16759093",
            "insertPoint": "4",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "1"
          },{
            "name": "Inline Links",
            "component": "17980324",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 8,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "7",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          },{
            "name": "GPT - 2x Rectangles Desktop, Tower on Mobile - Labeled",
            "component": "21934225",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 8,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "7",
            "maxInsertions": 25          
          
          },{
            "name": "Inline Links",
            "component": "17980324",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 12,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "11",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          },{
            "name": "GPT - Leaderboard to Tower - Slot Auto-select - Labeled",
            "component": "17012245",
            "insertPoint": "8th",
            "startingPoint": 12,
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "11",
            "maxInsertions": 25
          }
        ]

Cleverly designed blog aggrigators seem to be all the rage - you know, like Pinterest or Tastespotting. Well folks, we have another one for food blog porn, and it's called Punchfork.

Punchfork pre-selects popular food blogs to be on their searchable list. So far they only have 36 and it's a who's who of the food blogosphere. It's folks like The Pioneer Woman, David Lebovitz, Smitten Kitchen, 101 Cookbooks, Matt Bites, Cannelle et Vanille, and Lottie + Doof. We would gather that the 80/20 rule applies here that if you have the top 20% of the food blogs out there, you've got the majority of what's happening out there in home cooking trends.

Punchfork categorizes the ingredients and you can select a landing page for the recipe but if you want the preparation instructions, you need to click through to the blog where it was originally published. There's a nice Twitter feature that if you click on the recipe to tweet it, it will automatically tag the blog's author.

Punchfork was founded in May 2010 by Jeff Miller, a software developer and angel investor in Silicon Valley. Prior to starting Punchfork, he was a quantitative hedge fund trader. Miller's advisor is the CEO of the hugely popular Japanese recipe database Cookpad, Akimitsu Sano. These dudes have the money and technology to make this a bid deal in the food world.

If you want your blog listed you need to have at least 20 published recipes with high quality photographs - English only right now. Check it out, it might be a great way to get your food seen around the world.

Follow Chow Bella on Facebook and Twitter.

Jennifer Woods

A message from Food & Drink Editor Tirion Boan: If you value independent journalism, please consider making a contribution to support our continued coverage of Phoenix's evolving dining scene and the chefs and restaurants that serve our community.

Support Today