As passionate foodies ourselves, we're more than happy to present the best French cuisine category - a collection of excellent blogs which more than deserve their already impressive readership as well as every reward they receive, including this one.

If you need a reason to visit France, it's the food. The French style of cooking has developed over many centuries and has been refined by thousands of gifted and passionate individuals. Everywhere in the world, people look up to the French as culinary heroes and tourists flock to France to savour their various regional delicacies. Unesco has added French cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, which safeguards cultural heritages worldwide and raises awareness as to their significance.

This was one of the hardest categories to judge, with many thousands of blogs devoted to the discussion of French cuisine. The blogs below made the winners' list after meeting our discerning criteria: ease of use, communicative language, clever use of diagrams, attractive layout, inclusion of pictures, inclusion of recipes, directions and maps, reviews, testimonials, and input from established figures in the world of French cuisine.

Whether you're a chef yourself in need of better ideas, a prospective traveller trying to find your way around the French culinary map, or somebody looking for pointers to French cuisine in your own country, we know that you'll find at least one of our award winning blogs to suit your taste.