One of the cool perks of writing about food in blogs is that you get to meet people who write about food in blogs. And they are quite a few food bloggers around here (I'll just mention two SFist contributors, Sam and Derrick, but scour their blogrolls for many more).

A blog we read is the one of Haddock. He is a chef in a rather sleepy city a few hours drive away from San Francisco, and decided to write a blog after running into friend of SFist and world-reknown food blogger Pim at Kiss Sushi. The blog allows him to communicate with like-minded people, to sound ideas and get feedback, and occasionally to vent his frustration without fear of backfire from his community.

Picture of Dennis Leary by the Chronicle's Darryl Bush.