Highlights: Year End Lists

A friend of mine recently posted the following as her facebook status:

“I am such a sucker for end of the year “top” lists…i just can’t explain it.”

Well, she’s not the only one.  This week I’m sharing a few of the many “best of the year” lists that have appeared in my reader over the past few weeks.

This site has an amazing collection of 2010-related lists.  So many that I probably don’t need to make my own list, except that only a handful are food related.  Impressive, nonetheless, especially if you’re looking for a way to kill a couple hours of your time (assuming, of course, that your #1 resolution isn’t to stop wasting time).

There were a lot of “Best Cookbooks of 2010” lists: David Lebovitz, Epicurious, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, NY Times, Serious Eats, Grist (technically “favorite food books”, but some cookbooks made the list).  I either need to stop getting new cookbooks or buy a bigger bookshelf…I’m leaning towards the bookshelf.

This is even more up my alley: Huffington Post’s Best Blogs-to-Cookbooks of 2010.  There are no plans for a Relishments cookbook, so I probably won’t make the 2011 list, but you never know :)

From Grist, the Top 10 Scary Foods of 2010.  I could rail on the issues of the current food system, but I think this list speaks pretty well for itself.

The Biggest Food Politics Stories, according to Slashfood.  A definite mix of good and bad.

Fear not, it’s not all bad news:  Change.org has a list of the 6 Biggest Sustainable Food Victories of 2010.

The Food Channel (via Slashfood) and Epicurious both have posts looking ahead to 2011’s food trends.

Anthony Bourdain’s favorite and least favorite things of 2010, including books, movies and ingredients.  I could watch Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations for the rest of my life and be content to not watch much else, I think.

From the non-food realm:

The year in photos and the year in ideas (via kottke.org).

Finally, Success Your Way posted a really impressive list of 111 New Years Resolutions and Tools to Make Them a Reality.  Well worth a look, if you’ve made any resolutions for 2011.