The Spirit World

At long last, it’s that time of year again, time to recognize your favorite food and drink blogs with the annual Food Blog Awards.  This year, in the interest of the upcoming holidays, we’ve moved our schedule up a bit, so it will not get underway until after the holidays. 

On Monday, January 5th, we will put out our call for nominations in fourteen different categories, and this is your chance to nominate the food and drink blogs that you think are the best of the best.  The nominations period will close on Friday, January 9th, 11:59 pm, EST, giving you five full days to nominate your favorite blogs.  Any nominations after that period will not be considered.

On January 19th, we will post the Top 5 nominations in each of the fourteen categories.  These spots are decided by our judging panel, and only blogs nominated the week before will be considered.  The amount of times a site is nominated does not have any bearing on its placement, it only puts it in the running.

Once the top 5 sites are announced for each category, the voting begins.   Voting will be open from Monday, January 19th until 11:59 pm EST on Friday, January 23rd.  You will have five full days to vote for your favorite site, determining the winners. The winners will be announced on Monday, January 26th. 

During the rest of this pre-Food Blog Awards time, we will be unveiling our distinguished panel of judges, the official rules of the Food Blog Awards, and the list of prizes donated for the winners from our very generous sponsors.

Go on and spread the word … and let the fun begin!