The proliferation of food blogs was one of the most hopeful trends of last year—hopeful because people feel confident enough they'll be putting food on the table in '09 to blog about it. Why has it taken this long for us to find Ezra Pound Cake, which (in addition to its awesome name) serves up recipes most every day ranging from a hot fudge pudding cake to the grilled spicy lime chicken with black bean salad pictured above? Don't know, but we'll bookmark it for proprietor Rebecca Crump's sly turns of phrase, as in this description of Prince's Hot Chicken: "The portions that are still white will help cool the burning, but those orange patches will set your soul on fire. And by 'soul,' I mean 'ass.' " If you are coming down through the narrows of the Cumberland River, Ezra Pound Cake, please let me know beforehand, and I will come out to meet you as far as Chick-fil-A.
