Press
Interviews with Rachel
Baltimore Magazine.
Rachel Rappaport started blogging four years ago to share her recipes with friends. Though she was trained as a school teacher, the 28-year-old Lauraville resident has a natural skill in the kitchen and a desire to let others in on her cooking secrets….
Each month, 100,000 unique visitors click over to see what she’s making. When she’s not typing up her recipes for things like her award winning tangerine dream cookies or pumpkin swirl brownies, she’s trying to respond to the approximately 100 e-mails readers send her each day. She has won numerous cooking and blogging awards and has been interviewed by major media outlets on everything from seasonal produce to recipe copyright laws.
November 2007 cover story in Style Magazine.
“Since 2004, Rappaport’s blog has become one of the top 20 food blogs in the nation, receiving about 50,000 visitors* each month and as many as 3,000 hits per day. People don’t visit to hear Rappaport wax poetic about a plum. They come because several times each week, she posts new, original recipes illustrated with food-porn quality photos. Hers is one of the few food blogs on the Web that features only original recipes. And there’s no pretentious foodspeak. She’s as down-to-earth as that other Rachael who cooks— her ingredients are mostly items you can pull from your cupboards and her recipes aren’t complicated or time-consuming— but not so annoyingly perky. “
McCormick’s 2010 Flavor Forecast live webcast
Electric Waist’s Daily Special 4/18/08.
WPYR’s Maryland Morning. Listen to the interview here.
Washington Post article about Smearcase
Mentions of Rachel and her blogs
Coconut & Lime has been featured in the Boston Globe, St. Petersburg Gazette, Seattle Weekly, Deseret Morning News, Mississippi’s Sun Herald, the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post. The News-Sentinel had a whole article about Coconut & Lime.
Washington Post website, Cooling off with Hot Food Writers.
The Boston Globe had this to say about Coconut & Lime “Talent for Asian cuisine, The “my thoughts” section of most entries is often useful.”
Featured on Slashfood, Blogher, eGullet, Tipnut TasteSpotting, Cupcakes Take the Cake, Family Oven, FoodCandy, and has been Feedster’s feed of the day.
In the July/August 2008 issue of Figure Magazine there is a a mention of Coconut & Lime and one of Rachel’s original recipes: blueberry-ginger granita.
The Washington Post’s food blog, All We Can Eat, featured Rachel’s apple cider doughnut recipe in a post about apple cider doughnuts.
Reader Digest’s website featured Rachel’s Chipotle Hummus
FineCooking.com loves Rachel’s S’mores cookies
iVillage featured Rachel’s Hawaiian-Style Pork Burgers
Whole Food’s Whole Story blog featured Rachel’s Fresh Cherry Mascarpone Waffles
Awards
MSN’s Delish.com named Coconut & Lime one of the top 50 food blogs in the world. Check out the whole list here.
Winner Best Original Recipes- 2006 Food Blog Awards
Winner 2007 Halloween Bake Off- BakeSpace.com (winning entry-pumpkin cheesecake swirl brownies)
Lovely Leftovers Winner-”Whether they liked liver or not, our bloggers agreed that one of the best (and equally creative) uses for turkey we saw was the chopped turkey liver over at Coconut and Lime.” -Slashfood
Food Blog of the Week at This Mama Cooks “All recipes at Coconut & Lime are the original creations of the author. (How many of us food bloggers can say that?) The blog features great pictures in a clean and attractive blog design. The writing is excellent, especially the “My thoughts” feature where Rachel gives insight into her cooking experience.”
Featured Food Bloggerat FamilyOven.com
Dessert of the day at Desserts Magazine “Heart of Darkness Cheesecake”
Winner of the annual Baltimore Sun Cookie Contest for her recipe for Tangerine Dream Cookies in 2006.
2007 and 2008 Weblog Awards Finalist for best food blog.
One of Saveur Magazine’s Sites We Love
One of nine finalists in the Pom Recipe Contest (pomegranate pulled pork with chipotle pomegranate barbecue sauce) watch the tasting here.
*by April 2008 the average number of visitors climbed to over 90,000 per month.
