Beyond the Plate: Top Food Blogs from around the World by Daniela Galarza. . 200p. illus., hardcover, (Prestel) $35 (9783791382777).

. Food blogging is not dead! That’s the message Saveur editor in chief Adam Sachs delivers in the foreword to this highly engaging collection of profiles by Galarza, an editor at Eater. The author features 30 popular and award-winning blogs from around the globe, introducing each with a deft and alluring portrait of the blogger and his or (mostly) her cooking, writing, and photography styles, followed by two sample recipes—a fan favorite from the site and a new one exclusive to the book. Readers meet chefs and crack home cooks from Kenya to New Zealand, Hong Kong to Finland, and locales across the U.S. Beautiful, full-page food photos tantalize throughout, while recipes cover a vast range of trends and techniques. Try wild herb salad with fava bean falafel from Germany’s Krautkopf or salmon poke bowl with spicy ponzu from New York-based Feed Me Phoebe. Dessert on the brain? Head for tahini blondies from Atlanta-based I Will Not Eat Oysters or chamomile-poached plums from Italy’s Hortus Cuisine. Recipe headnotes by the bloggers and quick Q&As with each one add a taste of the blog itself. Altogether, much like an amuse-bouche, the book will leave readers hungry for more from this next generation of food voices.—