Best Served Hot: July 19-25, 2026
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Peach rose to be the third most popular recipe ingredient being blogged about this week, after chicken and pasta. Cherry entered the ingredient charts for the first time, while fall entered the category charts for the first time, in 19th position, while Dinner, Summer, and Desserts are the most popular three.
On socials, gluten-free blogger Mama Gourmand grew her following by 12% this past week!
News to know:
Critical WordPress security update: Make sure you upgrade to version 7.0.2 as soon as possible.
WordPress 7.1 beta preview: New features on their way include a more personalized admin experience.
Original content ranks: New Google patent again indicates the importance of original content, and what that means.
Google images redesigns to be more like Pinterest: After 25 years of Google images (!), the redesign enables you to save collections.
SEO advice for food bloggers from Casey Markee: Includes advice on formatting posts and off-site PR.
Evergreen content is over: Advice is to build around what only you can say instead.
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.
Methodology: Top food blogs are defined as those running Raptive ads with 100K+ followers, DA 40+, and have posted in the past six months. Lifestyle, cocktail-only, and aggregator sites are excluded. This week we’re tracking 518 sites.
