There is an interesting discussion going on over at Delicious Days over how cookbooks cannot compete with recipes sites and especially food blogs.

But cookbooks – in many ways – can’t compete with online recipe sources and in particular with food blogs. For a couple of reasons:

We write because we love our food, which, photographed or not, will land on our plates afterwards. Usually. I dare to claim food bloggers are epicureans, so by no means would someone add hairspray to a painstakingly prepared feast, right? RIGHT? And the inexorably melting ball of ice cream showcased on the plate is real ice cream – likely to have been documented by the bloggers’ cursing about how difficult it was to capture the perfect scoop. It’s all real.

I would have to agree as food blogs enjoy a sense of currency and interaction. Furthermore, if you have a site like Delicious Days that does use brilliant photography, then things come a live.