Simply Recipes Food and Cooking Blog

Press and Awards

• Highlighted in the Chicago Tribune (February 20, 2008)
  Dot.com Cooking

Excerpt: "I've made it through most of her site since then and check once a week for updates. She always has a great story to go with each recipe and isn't afraid to use a little butter and cream to get the job done. And her recent post on stock from chicken feet was the icing on the cake."




• Recommended in Fitness Magazine (June, 2007)
  Blog News & Reviews: Our Favorites from the Web this Month. (JPG)

Excerpt: "Why we love it: Intimacy over volume - All dishes are friend or family-tested."




• Called "The godmother of Sacramento food bloggers" in The Sacramento Bee (May 23, 2007)
  The Internet is Cooking, page one and (page 2)

Excerpt: Bauer, who, at four years at the virtual stove, qualifies as Betty Crocker, says, "Blogging is extremely easy. It doesn't cost anything. There is this whole community aspect, too. It's not just having your own soapbox. It's connecting with other people who have the same passions you do. Food and cooking is about sharing. Food is a happy thing. It's writing about something you love."




• Highlighted in New Zealand's FoodTown Magazine (April, 2007)
  Blog-licious: A case of too many cooks spoiling your enthusiasm? Not if you check out the proliferation of online foodie blogs. (JPG)




• Interviewed on Capital Public Radio (March 2, 2007)
  Elise is interviewed by Jeffrey Callison of Insight on Sacramento NPR affiliate Capital Public Radio KXJZ.

  Listen
  (Interview starts about one third of the way through the hour program.)




• Featured in Senior Magazine (March, 2007)
  The Dish: Spotlight on Simply Recipes (PDF)

  Excerpt: "Elise: My parents, (now in their 70s) are both excellent home cooks. Mom made everything from scratch out of necessity."




• Noted in the Wall St. Journal (February 10, 2007)
  The Wizards of Buzz: A new kind of Web site is turning ordinary people into hidden influencers, shaping what we read, watch and buy.

  The WSJ describes Elise as one of the hidden influencers of the web and "somewhat of a maverick" regarding her use of Del.icio.us to keep track of recipes.




• Featured in the Boston Globe (January 24, 2007)
  Blogs add a new ingredient to food writing

  Excerpt: "[...] Bauer is posting new recipes continually, most recently roasted parsnip puree, roast chicken with carrots, and butter pecan ice cream. She gets many recipes from her family, who have clipped from newspapers, magazines, and cookbooks for years. Recipes come with a professional-quality photo and often a series of how-to photos."



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  Awarded Best Food Blog - Overall (January 10, 2007) in the 2006 Food Blog Awards.



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  Noted in Time Magazine (August 3, 2006)
  50 Coolest Websites 2006: Shopping, Lifestyles and Hobbies

  Time Magazine calls Simply Recipes a "great resource for cooks".



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  Finalist in the 2006 Weblog Awards (the Bloggies) for Best Food Weblog (February, 2006).



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  Quoted in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (February 23, 2005)
  Techie-foodie's virtual culinary kingdom carves out a respected place

  "Food blogs are the antidote to the increasingly consolidated culture-driving mass media. Being a blogger, I don't care what some publishing conglomerate says about what I should like."



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  Finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards (the Bloggies) for Best Food Weblog (February, 2005).



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  Featured in the Sacramento Bee (January 19, 2005)
  Finger-clickin' good

  Excerpt: "All across the land, repositories of family recipes - kitchen drawers, tin boxes, binders - are being mined for gems worth sharing with neighbors. This has been going on for generations, of course, but it has accelerated as the home computer has succeeded the backyard fence as a means of swapping recipes. For Tom and Alice Bauer of Carmichael, it means that the contents of a thick manila folder not only are ending up on daughter Elise's hard drive but in the recipe collections of hundreds of strangers."