Best Served Hot: December 28, 2025–January 3, 2026

Happy holidays!

Hello! It’s been the quietest publishing week so far this year for both food bloggers and news outlets, with the holidays. I hope you are enjoying a wonderful time with family and friends. This week’s issue is free to all subscribers!

I’m Rachel Cunliffe, a food blog designer and data scientist at Cre8d Design. This is your weekly, actionable look behind the scenes of the world’s top food blogs.

Every Sunday, you get exclusive trend analysis and clear-cut insights, plus news you should know about. Have a question about the food blog industry? Let me know, and I’ll look into analyzing the data for a future issue.

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Methodology Note: Top food blogs are defined as those running Raptive ads with 100K+ combined followers on Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, and Facebook. Lifestyle, cocktail-only, and aggregator sites are excluded. This week we’re tracking 994 sites.