As I write my monthly round-up of what's going on in my kitchen and on this blog, I am more than ever wondering where I'm headed with Cuisine Quotidienne.Some of you have read my musings on the subject before, so feel free to zap this post. Or at least bear with me. Or even better, leave a comment because if you've made it this far, you're one of the people I would most like to hear from.
So why all of this soul-searching over this blog, whereas I'm totally content with La France Profonde and And So Forth?
A few facts:
1. I love to cook. I love to eat. But life is very busy and although I do find time to eat, I don't always find time for cooking -- especially cooking of the bloggable variety.
2. I never really feel up to snuff with Cuisine Quotidienne. Food blogging appears to be a particular variety of the blogging genre -- a lot of unspoken rules: plenty of bloggers who seem to have nothing else to do in life but keep up their food blog; a discouraging number of incredibly gifted food photographers.
3. Sometimes the food blog world feels a bit pretentious to me, like what people are writing isn't really coming from the heart. Yet I find myself playing the game, too.
4. Here's the kicker: despite my worst efforts, clicks on Cuisine Quotidienne have tripled since June 2007! So I feel like someone's out there and I should be reaching out to that audience. But I don't really know who it is, because I don't spend hours poring over my stats. I prefer to get at least SOME form of dinner on the table.
5. To sum it all up: as I write, I'm torn between putting the whole blog on a break or trying to go whole-hog, and possibly commercial (on CQ only -- NEVER on my other two babies.)
Any thoughts on the matter?
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