what is left to say about food?

What is there left to say about food? Though I haven't kept up with any food bloggers (maybe Molly and Jessica's) since I dropped the blog to concentrate on my manuscript quite a while ago, it seems to me that a lot of food blogging follows along the lines of:

a. domestic narrative, plus recipes
b. recipes, with a message (weight loss, health issues, allergies, vegetarian/veganism etc)
c. love of place including city food blogs (paris, new york, san francisco, los angeles, tokyo, etc) and country food blogs (farm life, living sustainably, etc)
d. gimmicky food blogs, in manner of Julie/Julia
e. what-I-ate-today blogs
f. photo-rich blogs, my personal favorite
g. restaurant blogs

I think what I might be looking for is a food essayist approach. The downside of that is that it means taking the writing part of this blog far more seriously, so that I'd have to forego some of the pleasure of writing a post quickly, which I've loved about blogging as opposed to my scholarly work. On the other hand, the upside of a longer food essay approach is that it means taking the writing part of this job seriously.

So, with that in mind, who are the great food essayists? MFK Fisher, Calvin Trillin, Jeffrey Steingarten, Laurie Colwin... De Montaigne. Bourdain, regretfully. Reichl, at least her first book. John Thorne, absolutely one of my favorites.