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With Jeff Houck (@TheStew) of The Tampa Tribune, you get food and dining coverage cooked medium-rare in a reduction sauce of snark. His Monday "Weekend Eats" retweets chronicle the amazing, drool-worthy meals his followers ate the previous weekend. And his Top Chef live commentary is a must-read complement to the broadcast each week. A sample tweet:

As for Johnson (@rommiej) — who does NOT blog in an official role as journalist, just an individual, I must preface — read a sample of his tweetstream after the break

This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.