Zach and Clay are two guys that live in Washington DC. I wish I had known them when I was living in Washington DC. Zach and Clay started their food blog, The Bitten Word, back in February of 2008 and it has been a hit ever since. For quite sometime now, they had been collecting various food magazines in their apartment: Food and Wine, Gourmet, Cook’s Illustrated and Martha Stewart Living, to name a few.

They found that the magazines were piling up in their DC apartment and they decided they were going to put their magazines to use. The goal? Cook at least one recipe from each magazine a month, publish their results and show us how they made it. So far it’s a model that has worked for them and for their readers. It’s the reason I was drawn to their website in the first place.

What a great idea! I only wish I had the time and dedication these two have. I have to give kudos to the two of them for bringing these recipes to life and proving or disproving that the recipes in the magazines do turn out like the picture! Haha. They are not afraid to tell of their recipe woes or if they made a change to a recipe.

Hopefully I’ll make it out to DC soon and get a chance to meet these two and offer a challenge. Cook a three course meal with each course being from a different magazine of the same month. Sounds like fun right?

So take a moment and visit The Bitten Word, you may never look at your cooking magazines the same ever again!