Best Served Hot: February 15–21, 2026

Hello!

It was a super quiet publishing week, with the Super Bowl, Winter Olympics, Valentine’s Day, and snowstorms taking attention away from publishing. Only 24% of top food blogs published this week! Were there any other factors? Were you focusing on technical updates or other tasks? Let me know, I’d love to hear from you.

If we haven’t yet met, I’m Rachel Cunliffe, food blog designer + statistician at cre8d design. Every Sunday, Best Served Hot provides exclusive trend analysis and clear-cut insights and industry news you need to know.

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Methodology: 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 1008 sites.

Cover: National Muffin Day, February 20