The Inky's Rick Nichols came by the potluck (with some delicious baked ricotta and provalone cheeses from Claudio's, a crazy Italian dessert and vino) to meet the gang. Apparently, he was also working on a story [front page of today's Inquirer Food section!]. Unfortunately, the story was primarily a print journalism thing so URLs took up a lot of space (but they are all correct - first thing I did was check them all when I saw the online version - just double checked and noticed e's blog Foodaphilia's link is broken so she gets a double mention here: go here for good stuff!) and there wasn't enough room for all the fun quotes from everyone at the potluck.

Philly's got such an incredible food scene in all corners of the city. From the physical eateries to the paid reviewers to us: the lovers of food who pay someimtes ungodly sums of money for the food we love; scour the city to find the best deals on Heath toffee bits (if we can find them at all!); try dishes from every lunch cart in the line to keep things new; spend hours in the kitchen trying to get that recipe you saw online just right; sweat in the summer baking goods in the oven for friends you care about; gorge yourself with just one more bite because you must. I'm glad the dead tree people of old media are getting interested in what the rest of us are doing for little to no pay - certainly without an expense account.

But it should be noted that some of the Philly gang are getting monetarily rewarded for their passion, expertise and excellent prose: Marisa, one half of the on-screen duo that makes up Fork You! is the lead blogger over at Slashfood; David of Philafoodie is an instructor at The Wine School on Fairmount and a restaurant critic for The City Paper and Dynise of The Urban Vegan has an urban cookbook coming out in late 2009 to name a few of the success stories.

Philly's food scene is tops. And we've got 60+ foodie blogs to prove it with new ones popping up quicker than we can keep track of and subscribe to. Take a look at this [growing] list!

• 1 Wine Dude
• A Food Coma
• An Equal Opportunity Eater
• Beer Lass
• blogalicious
• Burning Pasta
• BYOB Map
• Challaman's Bread Blog
• Chicken-Fried Caviar
• City Joints
• Classic Wines
• CP: Meal Ticket
• Dish + Bitch
• Eatin' Good in the Hood
• Farm to Philly
• Farofa and French Fries
• Finding Philly
• Five Spice Duck
• Foobooz
• Food Country Restaurant Reviews
• food enthusiast
• Food Nerd
• Foodaphila
• foodzings
• Fork You
• fries with that shake
• Gastronomy Philly
• Gruel Omlet
• Holly Eats
• I'll Eat You
• Illadates
• John & Lisa are Eating in South Jersey
• Lavender Sky
• Le Petit Cochon
• Living on the Vedge
• Lyle's Guide
• Mac & Cheese Review
• McDuff's Food & Wine Trail
• Menupages Philadelphia
• Menutopia: Philly
• Minor Gourmandry
• Mutual Menu
• no counterspace
• Oh Kitchen What Won't You Do?
• Philadining
• Philadining - Quickies
• PhilaFoodie
• Philly Food and Drink
• Philly Food Guys
• PhillyCooksLocal
• PhillyEats
• Refined Sugar
• Robert's Market Report
• Spilt Wine and Sticky Rice
• StellaLand
• Straight from the Farm
• The Great Cheese Quest
• The Onion-Bean
• The Plastic Bowl
• The Real Potato
• The Student Stomach
• The Urban Vegan
• Trav's Gone Gluten-Free
• TV Food Fan
• Veggicurious
• when words fail
• Wild Thyme Kitchen

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