next stop, food network
tommyLocal recipe and food blogger Jaden Hair started her Steamy Kitchen blog in February of 2007. By August, she was getting big-time pub from the Tampa Tribune and the Wall St. Journal. Before that month ended, Jaden was looking for a logo for her brand new column in Creative Loafing.
Alas, it is over. In tomorrow’s weekly, she dumps Creative Loafing for a bigger paper:
There’s no easy way to break up, except to just tell the truth. He’s older, more mature and…sigh…has a bigger masthead. I’d be lying if I told you that size doesn’t matter, because right now at this stage in my life and career, it does.
Today we found Jaden in Jeff Houck’s Flavor section (more to come on this!), announcing her new gig at the Tribune. Who knows what’s next?
Of course, not everybody goes from being an unknown to a superstar, but earlier this year, Jaden gave Creative Loafing readers some helpful hints on how to begin your very own food blog. You can imagine one or more of those readers finding how easy it is to get it going, and just start blogging. And who knows, one day they too may become a media superstar like Jaden.
Creative Loafing might have an opening.
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March 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Take heart, Loafers. It’ll be a matter of time before she does the same thing to the Trib. Somebody at the Times is probably looking up her phone number now.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Quick! Someone call CL - I hear they are looking for a new food columnist!
March 13th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Hey Tommy…don’t forget to give yourself a pat on the back for your own flavor of blogging superstardom. While the barriers to entry are relatively low, it is not as easy as one might think to gain a loyal following the way Jaden (and you) have done.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Hey! What about me????? Hello, The Culinary Sherpas? Urban Eater?
J/K Jaden! Bask in your superstardom, my little (food) porn princess.
I don’t think so Carl. The Flavor group is a pretty tight bunch, thanks to Papa Houck. What better boss could you ask for?????
March 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I’ll be getting to you shortly, Urban Eater…
In the meantime, congrats on your new gig, too.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Congratulations Jaden! Do Bay area bloggers rock or what?
Gotta go raid the fridge now…this post made me hungry…