THE CHEF FROM HELL

  Today, as I was taking my morning walk around my neighborhood, my mind began to drift away in a fog of silly notions.  Whistling under my breath as I strolled along, I started to speculate as to what it would be like if some famous personalities from the past were active members of today's food blogging community.  Hmmmm.....

  Marcel Marceau --  Marceau, whose Silence For The Lamb Kebobs blog has been around since 1999, posts recipes that are not longer than 2 lines of text!  This minimalist approach has held him in good stead as his list of readers has grown with each passing year.  Most recent blog post:  "          !        ...."

  Laurel & Hardy:  Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy work as a blogging team, doing food related podcasts in their Is Something Burning? blog which has been a popular favorite with foodies for the past 5 years.  These two lovable bozos get into trouble each time they turn the camera on, leaving their readers in stiches!  Excerpt from the most recent podcast:   "Stanley, hand me that cast iron skillet, would you?"  (the skillet slips from Stanley's hands and smacks Oliver on the kneecaps)  "Ooooweee!"

  Babe Ruth -- The Bambino Chronicles, a blog based in bucolic Coney Island, features the eccentric kitchen ravings of Babe Ruth, a retired baseball player who enjoys stick-to-yer-ribs type dishes.  Many of his readers have to stop and chuckle as the Babe has a real fondness for posting recipes that feed a lot of people! Excerpt from most recent post: "Today, we're making chili, see?  N' as the crow flies one cannot make a small batch o' chili...heh,heh!  Why this here recipe will feed 40 hungry folks easy as pie...heh,heh!  First off, you'll need 'bout 30 lbs of really good ground beef, see?"

  Jerry Seinfeld  --  Jerry, after a successful career as a comedian in a popular television sitcom, finally found his true calling when he turned to food blogging in 2000.  His What's Up With That Food? blog. which features acute observations concerning the vast minutae of food, has kept his legion of readers coming back for more!  Most recent blog excerpt:  "What's up with those onions?  I mean, you have to take off their skins before you cook them and you end up feeling like a cannibal!  What's up with that?!!"

  Charles Bukowski  --  Best known for his quirky attitudes about food and women, Bukowski's blog, Food Madness, chonicles the comings and goings of his daily (turbulent) life.  In 2001, the Detroit Free Press named Bukowski as "the food blogger most likely to end up doing time in prison for his mad rants and overall intolerance of the human race as a whole."  Excerpt from most recent blog post:  "Sure I burned the gawdamn green beans but Sheila knew it was about more than that as she sucked on her menthol cigarette in the dark bedroom.  Tomorrow I will reclaim my soul by making pancakes...."

  The Donner Party  -- Written as a group blog project by some organic food pioneers who have been stranded in the wild hinterlands of Colorado for the past year,  the What's Your Beef? blog features crisp writing and surrealistic photography.  Excerpt from most recent blog post:  "Last night we ate Sam Brown's left leg.  This was an event tinged with sadness as Sam was once a champion clog dancer back home in Ohio... the meat, though, was relatively good and sweet.  My wife, Martha, had seconds..."