It was during a typically cold, gray, drizzly winter in Central Ohio when the inspiration struck for Restaurant Widow.
It was 2004, and I had dropped out of corporate life a year earlier to pursue a writing career and things hadn't gotten very far. Sitting listlessly in my home office one day, staring a another blank computer screen, I racked my brain for where to start. Blogging had just become very popular, and was all the rage on NPR programs. I had always wanted to be a food writer, and I thought to self "hm. I wonder if anyone writes food blogs."
Turns out, they did!
I joined Typepad and began tinkering. And I started writing. And writing, and writing, and writing. I made a commitment to write for three months. If I managed to write content during that time, I would make my site public and keep going. I did it, and in March 2005, Restaurant Widow went live.
I started off with a 1MP camera and some very shaky web design skills. Through the years I have developed my own style of photographing food and it is difficult for me to look at any food product without calculating how it might best be captured on a computer screen.
Like many bloggers, I can remember the first day I had 100 visitors in a day, then 400, and then 1000.
I have written over 1500 posts in RW, have received 5000 comments, and have nearly 2 million unique visitors since its inception.
These days, Restaurant Widow receives about 28000 unique visitors per month, and has thousands who read through news aggregaters.
Click here to visit RW for yourself!
RW is a constantly evolving project, and I hope to continue writing it for a long time.
