MEDIA SCAN

NEW BLOGS AND VIDEO LOGS

· http://www.doriegreenspan.com

Moved to create a continuing conversation with the folks she met during her "Baking: From My Home to Yours" book tour, Dorie Greenspan shares her daily cooking and eating life, divided among her three home towns: New York, Paris and Westbrook, Conn. Some recipes are new and some are tweaked from her books; all have the passion and accessible style her audience has come to appreciate. She's taking the pictures, too.

· http://www.spicesoflife.com

What began as a radio project has turned into a video-blogging platform for cookbook author Nina Simonds. She plans to report from restaurants, interview chefs and cover food, health and lifestyle as an integrated force. The first episodes launched this month. "It's sort of refreshing to do this every day and not have to write it all down," Simonds told us by phone last week from her home in Salem, Mass. Her knowledge of Asian cuisine and special interest in healthful eating enrich the footage, which is shot with a Nokia telephone.

· http://www.theslowcook.blogspot.com

Washingtonian Ed Bruske, a personal chef and former contributor to the Food section, celebrates food from local farms, what's growing in the back yard and recipes whose focus, as his URL name suggests, does not involve the quick route. Cultural tangents and recommended food-related reading are included.

http:// · www.realmeals.tv With a 100-video catalogue and two more added every day, the month-old Web site offers short plays of recipes and techniques that are professionally produced and set to snappy music. A few of the videos are viewer-submitted. It's a fast-growing offshoot of Real Health.TV, an information service, both founded by Internet television entrepreneur Dennis Lynch. Featured are New York area chefs, home cooks and bartenders, including restaurant chef Laurent Tourondel (BLT Steak). Coming up: a nationwide RealMeals.TV bus tour in which camera crews will tape chefs representing different cuisines.

-- Bonnie S. Benwick