Best Served Hot: November 2–8, 2025

Hello and Welcome!

I’m Rachel Cunliffe, food blog designer and data scientist. You’ve opened Best Served Hot, your weekly, actionable look behind the scenes of the world’s top food blogs. Thank you for being here.

This exclusive trend analysis and clear-cut insights is published fresh every Sunday. This week, I’ve summarized the mailing list tool market share for top food bloggers and looked at post author data for posts published in the past week and discovered that an estimated 90% of top food bloggers are female!

Got a question about the food blog industry? Please let me know, and I can look to analyze the data in future issues.

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P.S. By “top food blogs”, I mean tracking 2,065 recipe-focused sites this week running Raptive ads, not lifestyle, cocktail-only, or aggregator sites.