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Half of the IHB will think I've gone fruit loopy. The rest of the IHB knows I'm already there. Here we go anyway.
<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/">http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/</a>
I'm not going to do this justice, so I'm going to just plagerize the LA Times and let them do it:
<blockquote>Ree Drummond likes to call herself an accidental country girl and she considers herself something of an accidental cook. But there's nothing accidental about the success she's built combining those two.
Drummond writes the Pioneer Woman blog and gets about 13 million page views a month, enough to spin off a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Although not due out until Oct. 27, it is currently at No. 1 on Amazon's preorder list in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. Technorati ranks the Pioneer Woman on its list of the 100 most powerful and influential blogs in the world.
Each month, roughly 2 million women -- and her readers are mostly women -- flock to the blog to live vicariously as Drummond unspools her "how in the world did I end up here?" story of a would-be city girl who now finds herself a wife and mother of four living on a ranch in the middle of nowheresville. It is by turns hilarious, romantic, poignant -- and always illustrated by a gasp-inducing number of photographs that verge on the erotic as she chronicles her kitchen's goings-on. (A recent cake recipe used 53 photos -- 53!)
The heart of Pioneer Woman is its food corner, the Pioneer Woman Cooks. There are canning instructions, and one perennially popular entry is a step-by-step "how to" on cooking a steak. And there are hundreds of recipes. Recipes, though, are almost beside the point.
This is one food blog that is as much about the lookin' as the cookin'.
"I hear from readers, I know a lot of them love to look at the pictures. I'm not sure what that says about the rest of it," Drummond jokes.
She never intended to live on a cattle ranch. Though Drummond was raised in Oklahoma, she fled just as soon as she could, heading for Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. "There was just something about Los Angeles. It was the biggest city I could think of to go. I couldn't wait to get there," she says.</blockquote>
The website is just beautiful. Her photography is very good. The stuff she cooks looks lovely ? and stuff a scrub like me can absolutely take on. Her writing and humor are fun. I had no idea Oklahoma was that pretty. And I got a lot - no, TON - of respect for somebody who lives 45 minutes one way (including 5 miles on a gravel road) from the closest grocery store. You gotta check it out.
<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/">http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/</a>
I'm not going to do this justice, so I'm going to just plagerize the LA Times and let them do it:
<blockquote>Ree Drummond likes to call herself an accidental country girl and she considers herself something of an accidental cook. But there's nothing accidental about the success she's built combining those two.
Drummond writes the Pioneer Woman blog and gets about 13 million page views a month, enough to spin off a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Although not due out until Oct. 27, it is currently at No. 1 on Amazon's preorder list in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. Technorati ranks the Pioneer Woman on its list of the 100 most powerful and influential blogs in the world.
Each month, roughly 2 million women -- and her readers are mostly women -- flock to the blog to live vicariously as Drummond unspools her "how in the world did I end up here?" story of a would-be city girl who now finds herself a wife and mother of four living on a ranch in the middle of nowheresville. It is by turns hilarious, romantic, poignant -- and always illustrated by a gasp-inducing number of photographs that verge on the erotic as she chronicles her kitchen's goings-on. (A recent cake recipe used 53 photos -- 53!)
The heart of Pioneer Woman is its food corner, the Pioneer Woman Cooks. There are canning instructions, and one perennially popular entry is a step-by-step "how to" on cooking a steak. And there are hundreds of recipes. Recipes, though, are almost beside the point.
This is one food blog that is as much about the lookin' as the cookin'.
"I hear from readers, I know a lot of them love to look at the pictures. I'm not sure what that says about the rest of it," Drummond jokes.
She never intended to live on a cattle ranch. Though Drummond was raised in Oklahoma, she fled just as soon as she could, heading for Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. "There was just something about Los Angeles. It was the biggest city I could think of to go. I couldn't wait to get there," she says.</blockquote>
The website is just beautiful. Her photography is very good. The stuff she cooks looks lovely ? and stuff a scrub like me can absolutely take on. Her writing and humor are fun. I had no idea Oklahoma was that pretty. And I got a lot - no, TON - of respect for somebody who lives 45 minutes one way (including 5 miles on a gravel road) from the closest grocery store. You gotta check it out.
haha Wow, 10 years old and she wants to find a job already. If she was a little older I could have her be my file/paperwork coordinator and personal part-time assistant (this would be very helpful if I got another consulting assignment).
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