I don't know of any, but I'd love the link for French Laundry at Home. (Yeah, I could google it, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.) Pretty please?

I just discovered the "Nose to Tail" site, which is attempting the St. John’s cookbook “The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating“.

Duh - I just found the WSJ article and see that they already mentioned Nose to Tail. There are links from the article with a lot more of these blogs than I was expecting to see. I'm most interested in the Rick Bayless inspired blog, since his books have been responsible for many of my favorite meals.

This is another example of a cultural phenomenon I like to theorize about: the completion obsession. Doing something (or not doing something) every day for a month, or a year. Reading everything on a list, watching every film on a list. Visiting locations that meet certain criteria (ballparks, buildings shaped like what they sell). I think it's a desperate attempt to feel some control over a world grown chaotic with information and possibilities.

I think that's a close relative of another phenomenon I've observed, which I don't have a catchy name for, and which occurs in many guises, but the canonical manifestation is a posting you'll see frequently on, e.g., any bicycling forum: a contextless "I rode x miles in y time. Is that good?" Call it the "where do I stand in the world, really?" question. It's a relative of completionism because completing things is just one particular measuring stick you can put your progress up against. For most people I think those are harmless signs of natural curiosity, not problematic obsessions.

There's been sort of a collapse of canons and gatekeepers and authorities and whatnot, too, which seems to feed the phenomenon that Miko refers to.

That said, though, that human impulse toward completism was well-known among record and book collector types long before the rise of the Internet, and I suspect it dates back at least as far as the library at Alexandria, or the Tower of Babel.

The Amateur Gourmet is working through Pepin's cookbook, but only on Tuesdays (the rest of the week he does his own recipes, restaurant reviews, etc.).
You might like that?

I don't know of any, but I'd love the link for French Laundry at Home. (Yeah, I could google it, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.) Pretty please?

Certainly, it's http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com