Savory Links for Week Ending 8/5/2012

Travel: 36 Hours in Midocast Maine – The New York Times has a feature on the Midcoast, featuring can’t-miss stops from Brunswick to Belfast. I’m not sure about the author’s assertion that the presence of decent restaurants in the area owe a debt to Portland’s “arty influence,” but whatevs. The New York Times

Joel Stein: “I Will Be Your Server” – “The shankton of wildrange fizzle comes with a side of foraged burrbark. That’s served roomcoldhappysad.” “We’ll definitely take one of those.” The New Yorker

The World’s Best Burgers – A roundup of the best burgers in the world (a chili cheeseburger in Moscow, anyone?). Gourmet

What Wine Should We Buy for Our Baby? – Looking for a great wine to buy the year your baby is born, to save and toast with them when they turn 21? Here’s a great discussion of which bottles age best. Serious Eats

RIP DownEast Blogs – A reaction by a Bangor Daily News blogger to the rumored decision by DownEast Magazine to shutter the blogs operating under their umbrella, and what it means not just for online independent media in Maine, but nationwide. Bangor Daily News

Talk Of DownEast’s Demise ‘Baseless,’ Says Editor – …but according to DownEast, the blogs aren’t being shut down, the writers just aren’t being paid anymore, which has nothing to do with cost. Eater

A Day After Blogs Shut Down, Publisher Out at DownEast magazine – …but the publisher definitely DID walk. Bangor Daily News

From Food Porn To Food Mourn: The 101 Saddest Photos On Instagram – Instagram’s photo filters are great at adding an instant touch of nostalgia to your family photos. They’re also great at making food look horrifying. People, please: Instagram filters and food photography don’t mix. Buzzfeed

Big Appetites: Miniature People Living in a World of Giant Food by Christopher Boffoli – We’re particularly big fans of the tiny engineers working on the giant can of Easy Cheese. Say, that’s spelled correctly. Must be real cheese, right? Colossal

Leveraging Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Food Blog – If you’re not doing the Pinterest thing yet, you’d better get started. Here are some crib notes to get you rolling. Pro Food Blogger

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About the Author: Malcolm Bedell

My first memories of cooking start in Maine at six years old, when I wore a yellow rainslicker to avoid getting spattered by the bacon I was frying in a skillet. My interest in both Mexican cooking and recreating classic New England dishes from scratch developed while living in Mexico, on a steady diet of pork and habanero peppers. You can see more of my writing and photography online on Serious Eats, the Huffington Post, BlogHer, and Foodista, as well as in print for Downeast, Indulge, and Cigar Snob magazines.