She says the time she devotes to the blog has been time well spent.

``I've been getting such a great response from it, but it's not meant to be a comment-based or interactive site. It's more of a nicely organized resource for the veggies and even the meat eaters out there.''

DAILYCOCAINE.COM

Danny Brody set out to fill a perceived gap in the South Florida food media.

''There are a lot of things people constantly overlook: food trucks, rib and barbecue stands, tiny restaurants in Little Haiti and out-of-the-way neighborhoods,'' says Brody, 53. ``There are so many places hiding in plain sight that people see and ignore.''

A recent topic: Mark A. Gibson's Mobile BBQ at 4600 NW Second Ave., Miami. (''I may be dreaming, but I think I've found the promised land. Of ribs,'' he wrote in one of more than 60 posts since August.)

''I get on my scooter and I drive into neighborhoods I've never been to before,'' says Brody, who owned a now-defunct Wynwood wine bar and lives in Miami's Shorecrest neighborhood. ``You have to be a little brave and adventurous, but I believe it's worth it.''

He occasionally posts recipes for home-cooked dishes and often rants about South Florida restaurant critics. His tastes are nothing if not eclectic (gizzards in coconut milk was a December topic), though user information like restaurant operating hours and prices can be slim.

Like many blogs, dailycocaine.com is as much a voyeuristic view of Brody's palate as a way to find places to eat. Its motto, after all, is ``I ingest so you don't have to.''

ANDTHEEGGS.NET

It began with a sandwich. Jennifer Steinberg was 11, spending the summer in Fort Wayne, Ind., with her grandmother. Raised in a Jewish family, she had never eaten pork. On day, on her own at the local swim club, she broke the rules and ordered a ham and cheese sandwich on her grandmother's tab.

''The saltiness of the ham with the creamy, melty, mellow cheese sent my taste buds into a frenzy. I ordered another and repeated the same routine every day I was at the pool without parental supervision,'' she wrote in her first blog post.

Since May, Steinberg has posted 150 times, from short recaps of her trips to local restaurants to lengthy stories about other foods she ate as a child and recipes she has found in cookbooks and on other websites.

''A lot of times when I'm looking for a recipe on the Web, I don't go to the Food Network . . . I'd rather go to a blog where people personally talk about what they are making and why they make it differently from the way someone else would do it,'' said Steinberg, 42, a paralegal by day who lives in Cutler Bay with her partner, Beth.

She recently began a second blog, People + Food (peopleandfood.blogspot.com), on which she solicits short essays about growing-up experiences with food. For now, there are only a handful of entries, all from family members. She's looking for outside contributions to help the site grow.

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